Sentence examples for filibustering from from inspiring English sources

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.

After (in her own words) filibustering from the chair for a bit, to give extra time for the MP to arrive, she announces that it's time to shut the doors to the division lobbies.

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

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

I noted that two Democratic senators, Joseph Lieberman and Tom Harkin, had suggested "a rules change that would turn the filibuster from a blocking mechanism into one that could merely delay" — i.e., would essentially abolish the filibuster.

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.

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.

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.