filibuster

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

So it’s a bit like a filibuster, except she’s just sitting in an empty room.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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

As great as this advantage was to the Rizal family it is but a little of what was done by the Dominicans for that ungrateful family of filibusters.

From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair

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

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

We bribed, intimidated, and filibustered in swaddling clothes, and stole a governorship as early as 1791.

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

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

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

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

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison