"If the Republican caucus continues to abuse the filibuster rule and obstruct the president's fine nominees to the D.C. Circuit, then I believe... a rules change should be in order," Leahy said on the Senate floor, just before Republicans blocked Nina Pillard's confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In between — on Aug. 5, the day the Senate adjourned for its summer recess — Republican senators used an obscure procedural rule to obstruct Mr. Diamond's nomination to the Fed.
accused Democrats Tuesday of throwing a "bomb" into the Senate by proposing to change rules for obstructing legislation with filibusters.
Officials ruled Pronger obstructed Kiprusoff's view with his glove.
From day one, partisan politics have ruled, and obstructing Obama was the prime goal, as the above quote from McConnell reveals.
This ill-conceived rule will surely obstruct and delay good care in many instances, increasing the suffering of dying patients and their loved ones.
"This rule... serves only to obstruct our constitutional right to decide questions regarding the use of military force," they wrote in a message also signed by Reps.
Partisan acrimony continues to rule Congress, threatening to obstruct the next Supreme Court appointment; women still struggle to have their issues taken seriously, and though the House and Senate may be more diverse than they were in 1991, the current Congress is still 80% male and 80% white.
German law allows suspects to be held for months if a judge rules that they might flee, obstruct justice or pose a danger to society.
House Republicans, mindful of how their handling of budget issues provoked a backlash in 1995, have been less aggressive in overtly defying the administration than have Republicans in the Senate, who will remain in the minority yet have more power to obstruct under Senate rules.
Its arcane rules allow the minority to obstruct legislation in a variety of ways; sometimes a single senator can do so.
