Sentence examples for risk of filibuster from inspiring English sources

The risk of filibuster means that most laws will need 60 votes to pass the Senate.

Better to risk a filibuster — an event that, because of the great effort involved, would actually be rare — than to save time and accomplish little or nothing.

That's why I think progressives are willing to accept some of the risk of doing away with the current filibuster system if it means that we can get things done that the American people want to see happen".

Newtown families urge Republican senators to vote instead of filibuster.

It was Newtown's version of "Filibuster the Filibuster: They Deserve a Vote," in which antigun activists in Washington and Newtown gathered to protest a threatened Senate filibuster of gun legislation.

The Republicans have time and again used the filibuster, the threat of filibuster, holds on nominations and other tactics to block confirmations.

The way the system works now, however, the potential future payoff - control of the White house, the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate - is worth the risk of being perceived as do-nothing opportunists.

But before long, some Republicans could break ranks and vote to permit debate, rather than risk filibustering tighter regulation of big financial firms.

My memory of filibusters is of the great civil rights filibusters in the 1960s.

One problem for the Republicans is that they like the idea of filibustering legislation (the filibuster has been very, very good to them over the years); they just don't like, for the moment, the idea of filibustering judicial nominees.

At least no one could accuse him of filibustering.