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

On the topic of the legislative filibuster, put to one side the matter of court and cabinet nominations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Perhaps the most famous, and certainly the most romanticized, version of a filibuster took place in the film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 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

The bill must get 33 votes Thursday and again in a later third round of debate to overcome filibusters and pass.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

In the year 1665 the French pirate Pedro Legrand penetrated into Santo Espiritu with a force of filibusters.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Normally senators are assigned to committees by unanimous consent, but that motion can be filibustered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

The women filibustered, taking the gifts to the podium on the Senate floor to declare themselves even more firmly in resistance.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

The law gives Congress the ability to overturn a regulation with a simple majority in both chambers, and it cannot be filibustered in the Senate.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

Members who favored repeal disliked to overturn the tradition of the Senate which allowed unlimited debate, and the silver senators therefore filibustered through the summer and early fall.

From The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Forth was so prolific at "filibustering" backbenchers bills that the Friday sessions in the House of Commons, where the bills are debated, gained the nickname "Eric Forth's killing fields".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Ms. Willis’s filibustering whirlwind subsided as she waved a hand in exasperation.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

State senators Danielle Conrad and Jen Day also joined the team in filibustering all legislation.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

"My kid," Hambro said, "filibustering against going to bed. A real sea lawyer, that kid."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison