filibuster

In 1964 opponents of the Civil Rights Act attempted to stop the legislation with a filibuster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Cloture, which is what we usually mean when we talk about the filibuster today, came much later in the Senate’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The legislation still faces a full Senate vote and requires seven Democratic votes to avoid a filibuster.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

If he could manage the surprising feat and advance legislation popular enough to withstand a filibuster, he could potentially lock in the reconciliation law’s border security gains.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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

France was at that time at war with England, and the Spanish pirates would often cross to the windward of the Antilles, in spite of the frequent pursuit of filibusters.

From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Those concerns did not deter Slama on Thursday, who filibustered for the allowed two hours on the final round of debate on the bill.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 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

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 Bret Harte

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

By late February, Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, an Omaha Democrat elected alongside Ms. Hunt in 2018, began filibustering during virtually every legislative session, aiming to pressure Republicans into shelving the bill.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 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