filibuster

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested Congress could enact the idea through reconciliation, a process lawmakers used to pass a tax and spending law last year and avoid the filibuster.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

The talking filibuster doesn’t provide a way around this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

In times as desperate as these, it’s unclear how much Alvarado’s filibuster really would have mattered.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2025

Understand this about Clark: He can filibuster a yes or no question into a 45-second monologue without actually answering yes or no.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

There was even a type of speech called the filibuster, whose sole purpose was to waste time.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The 60-year-old lawyer has pledged to protect "natural wealth" from "21st-century filibusters who want to privatise everything" if she wins.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

Justice John Paul Stevens pressed Bopp on whether the ads were genuinely intended to influence Sen. Feingold’s stance on filibusters.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

Together they ruminate about the good old days of L.A. when they’re not storming city council meetings with dramatic filibusters about bus schedules.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Colin Robinson filibusters with fabricated stories about his nonexistent children and defends empty stances simply to drain his audience of their will to live.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

Contrary to their expectations, the filibusters had found the town of Morillo practically deserted, and there were no enthusiastic patriots to welcome their would-be deliverers.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

The resolution cannot be filibustered, and needs just a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

Three times, the women in the Senate and three Republican male colleagues successfully filibustered.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2023

The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion.

From Salon ● May 8, 2023

With the Civil Rights Act being filibustered in the Senate, King arrived in St. Augustine in mid-May, in part to highlight the persistence and brutality of racial injustice.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022

He actually got these boys to think it could be filibustered into his possession.

From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

Leadbeater has said the majority of peers back her proposals but that a small group of opponents were trying to talk the bill out, also known as filibustering.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

He literally makes no sense half the time and the rest of the time he's filibustering, lying, bullying and deflecting.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

The filibustering, formally one of the Dodgers’ allotted five mound visits for the game, proved effective.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

The minority has had some success in filibustering bills.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

In the margin, Cecily had drawn a hilarious picture of a Roman senator named Cato the Younger who was famous for his filibustering.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood