Sentence examples for their filibuster from inspiring English sources

But each time a bill was introduced in the Senate, southern conservatives used their filibuster powers to defend states' rights.

Republicans dropped their filibuster this afternoon, after the Senate confirmed four judges without a single dissenting vote.

Stuck on the Senate floor, filibustering senators couldn't meet with lobbyists or attend campaign fund-raising events; they couldn't do much of anything, really, until their filibuster ended.

The Republicans are using their filibuster power to block that but getting no further with their alternative, which would cut the ranks and pay of civil servants.

Republicans refused to end their filibuster against a Democratic plan to protect job security in the proposed antiterrorism department, defeating a motion to end debate.

James Carville is correct when he says that if Republicans actually carried out their filibuster threats on health care, it would be a political bonanza for the Democrats.

The Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority.

The fate of health care reform in Congress is unclear now that Democrats have lost their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

But he did concede that Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts, in which Democrats lost their filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, was not completely lost on him.

By the time the Senate took it up in February, a special Senate election in Massachusetts had cost the Democrats their filibuster-proof majority.

The win robs the Democrats of their filibuster-proof 60-40 majoriny in the Senate and throws into doubt the future of Obama's health reform plan.