Sentence examples for by using filibusters on from inspiring English sources
By using filibusters on the judges, the Democrats have essentially imposed a supermajority requirement, and we are entitled to stop them.
Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, viewed the tactic with disdain at the time, saying, "By using filibusters on judges, the Democrats have essentially imposed a supermajority requirement, and we are entitled to stop them".
Democrats have used filibusters to prevent votes on the Senate floor for 10 of Mr. Bush's 214 nominees.
When Forster attempted to introduce the Protection of Person and Property Act 1881, Parnell and other Land League MP's attempted to obstruct its passage by using tactics such as filibustering; one such filibuster lasted for 41 hours.
Yes, Bush passed his tax cuts — by using a method called reconciliation, which can avoid a filibuster but can be used only on budget issues.
Ms. Landrieu, like Mr. Graham, helped negotiate the 2005 pact that limited the use of filibusters on judicial nominees to all but "extraordinary circumstances".
Mr Coburn, for example, has particularly objected to studies on American attitudes to the filibuster, at a time when Republicans are using the filibuster routinely.
Republicans have been using the filibuster to prevent final consideration of the nomination by refusing to end debate on it, a procedural step that requires 60 senators to vote in the affirmative.
The Republicans have time and again used the filibuster, the threat of filibuster, holds on nominations and other tactics to block confirmations.
By putting forward these three at the same time, the president is directly challenging those Republicans who have repeatedly used the filibuster, the threat of filibuster, holds on nominations and other tactics to prevent judicial and executive candidates from getting an up-or-down vote.
Routine use of filibusters, attacks on voting rights, challenges to the legitimacy of the president, brinkmanship with the debt ceiling — these and other tactics add up to an attack by right-wing extremists on the infrastructure of our democracy.
