Sentence examples for filibuster from from inspiring English sources

Republicans will probably end up with 53 or 54 seats, short of the supermajority needed to overide a filibuster from the minority party.

The plan would prevent the filibuster from being used abusively, without eliminating an important tool to give a minority party a voice.

But to keep Mr Blair honest the Tories need to produce less by way of filibuster from Viscount Cranborne and more by way of concrete proposals for what an effective upper house would look like stripped of its hereditaries.

Rather, the opposition parties of the past couple of decades — and especially the Republicans in the Obama era — have transformed the filibuster from a weapon deployed in extraordinary circumstances into a routine part of Senate business.

Assuming 60 votes can be found to beat back the inevitable filibuster from Republicans like Mike Lee or Ted Cruz, the Senate will almost certainly approve the resolution minus the defunding language, sending the bill right back to the House.

But they might have to face a filibuster from John McCain, whose insistence that the government move slowly on the repeal is in opposition to the stances of his wife and daughter.

No such filibustering from Garcia.

So Democrats, as democrats, need not feel too terribly guilty about engaging in a spot of filibustering from time to time.

Over the last four years, Republicans have more than doubled the number of filibusters from the previous period, requiring 60-vote supermajorities for virtually every measure to move forward.

The Democrats control the Senate by 51 seats to 49; if they can capture nine more seats they will take their total to 60, the magic number needed to break filibusters from the other side.

He was welcomed enthusiastically by his new Republican colleagues and graciously by Democrats, even though Mr. Brown represents the end of their 60-vote rule and ability to overcome Republican filibusters from within their own ranks.