Sentence examples for extend debate from inspiring English sources

The filibuster historically has been used selectively for a handful of issues to extend debate, but we don't have a sixty-vote rule.

"At whatever point we get to a cloture vote to extend debate on the nomination of Brennan, it is my view that cloture should not be invoked," Mr. McConnell said.

Energy Assistance Bill Stalls An intense battle over energy policy continued in the Senate on Saturday, as Democrats tried to move forward with a bill to increase subsidies for home heating and other energy costs, but were blocked by Republicans who said they wanted to extend debate on a bill that might more broadly address the issue of high gasoline prices.

Thus the filibuster does not extend debate -- its supposed purpose -- it stops debate.

We extend debates about the sources of university capabilities at research commercialization.

The Republicans responded that their actions against Mr. Hagel don't amount to a "filibuster," they're just extending debate and slowing the confirmation process.

Any amendment lacking the support of 60 senators can be filibustered, although uncontroversial ones can be passed without extended debate by unanimous consent.

The power of the host in such programs is enormous, because that person leads from topic to topic, and cuts off or extends debate.

The Republican talk-a-thon is an especially odd parliamentary creature in that it is an extended debate to protest the Democrats' use of the filibuster, which in modern usage no longer involves extended debate.

The liberals will insist that there are no concessions at all in this, since attendance is always close to a hundred per cent on civil-rights bills, and some of them may argue that it actually strengthens the South's position by making it easier to muster the one-third plus one that is necessary to maintain extended debate.

Democratic tempers flared during consideration of a Pentagon spending bill, with lawmakers suggesting that Republicans were playing politics at the expense of American troops by extending debate over the $626 billion measure as way of trying to deny Democrats time needed to pass the health care bill before Christmas.