Alex Salmond, an admirer of Ireland's Charles Stewart Parnell, may fancy using Parnellite tactics like filibustering (harder now than in the 1880s), divisions on minor points of order and deliberate courting of suspension from the Commons.
The peculiar rules of the US Senate have long allowed individual senators to single-handedly block or frustrate legislation, for example with long, filibustering speeches that run out the clock on the allotted time for a bill.
The pipeline, which runs for 1,770km 1,0100 miles) from Azerbaijan to Turkey, is one of the world's biggest construction projects and was built by a consortium led by BP.See articlePulling back from the brinkIn the American Senate, a last-minute compromise to avoid the "nuclear option" that bans filibustering on judicial nominations was hatched by a group of 14 centrists from both parties.
It would leave intact the 60-vote threshold for breaking filibusters, but restore the requirement that filibustering senators actually take to the floor and talk until the majority gives up.
And the Republicans have the right to support the nuclear option if they believe that the Democrats have broken the agreement.Three of the Republican peacemakers Mike DeWine, Lindsey Graham and John Warner—have already expressed a willingness to "go nuclear" if the Democrats start filibustering a nominee.
Republicans have spent the past five years demonstrating that they have no such overriding respect for Senate tradition by demanding an unprecedented 60-vote supermajority to get anything passed, essentially filibustering virtually every piece of legislation and every executive appointment.
When Wendy Davis, a Texas state senator, spent 10 hours on her feet filibustering a bill that aimed to restrict abortion, her supporters turned to Amazon, the online retailer, to skewer opponents.
Having faced filibustering in Congress, Mr Arias wants a referendum to ratify DR-CAFTA.
America's restrictions on abortionsON JUNE 26th Wendy Davis, a state senator from Texas, prevented the passage of what would have been America's most restrictive anti-abortion measure by filibustering for nearly 11 hours.
He called for a "new era of co-operation".A whiff of bipartisanship would be nothing new in the Senate, where the minority party can thwart the majority by filibustering (blocking) legislation.
But it takes 60 senators to break a filibuster and force a vote on the Senate floor.Miguel Estrada recently withdrew his nomination for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, after two years of filibustering.
