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    A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely...
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    A filibuster is a tactic used in the United States Senate to delay or block a vote on a measure by preventing debate on it from ending.: 2  The Senate's...
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  • A filibuster (from the Spanish filibustero), also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country...
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    from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster—an extended speech designed to...
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    The Filibuster War or Walker affair was a military conflict between filibustering multinational troops stationed in Nicaragua and a coalition of Central...
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    the Senate's minority leader. A prominent practice in the Senate is the filibuster on some matters and its remedy the vote on cloture. The drafters of the...
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  • : 725  The nuclear option is most often discussed in connection with the filibuster. Since cloture is a nondebatable question, an appeal in relation to cloture...
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  • Filibuster Camp is the historic locale of a camp along the Gila River route of the Southern Emigrant Trail in Yuma County, Arizona, named in memory of...
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    Cloture (redirect from Filibuster proof)
    (President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong), to abruptly halt filibuster during debate at the Committee of the Whole stage of the Legislative Council...
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  • The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class is a 2011 political book authored by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders...
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  • Orlando, Florida, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, launched a filibuster in the United States Senate, promising to hold the floor "for as long...
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    enterprise was known at the time as "filibustering". After settling in California and motivated by an earlier filibustering project of Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon...
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    Connally. The group first emerged as a more formal group in a successful filibuster that blocked the Anti-Lynching Bill of 1937. This had passed the House...
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    threatened another filibuster, this one opposing any legislative proposals to expand federal gun control measures. The filibuster was attempted on April...
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    thirteen-hour-long filibuster to block Senate Bill 5, a measure which included more restrictive abortion regulations for Texas. The filibuster played a major...
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    initiatives during the Obama administration, having made frequent use of the filibuster, and blocked many of President Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme...
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  • Gang of 14 (category Filibuster)
    Republican Majority over an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats. Senate Democrats used the filibuster to prevent the confirmation of ten conservative...
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    dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, ending the filibuster of the certified results and the threat of political violence in exchange...
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    the Democratic caucus, but Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster, as it lacked the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture after a party-line...
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    failed 32–15, falling one vote short of the 33 votes needed to end a filibuster. If enacted, the bill would have outlawed abortion at six weeks with exceptions...
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    proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, but it was opposed by filibuster in the Senate. After Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, President...
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    a filibuster against Gorsuch's nomination to block his confirmation. However, Republicans invoked the "nuclear option", eliminating the filibuster with...
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  • James Long (February 9, 1793 – April 8, 1822) was an American filibuster who led an unsuccessful expedition to seize control of Spanish Texas between 1819...
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  • The Weekly Filibuster was an American talk radio show moderated by politico Ben Goodman of the University of Maine that was usually broadcast on Sunday...
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  • to require more than majority support to pass such a motion, including filibuster, where a three-fifths vote on a motion to end debate is required even...
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    2020. Cortez Masto supports reforming the filibuster of the United States Senate into a talking filibuster. In October 2017, Cortez Masto condemned the...
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    his country for his actions in the 1856 Second Battle of Rivas, in the Filibuster War. He died in the battle carrying a torch he used to light the enemy...
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    issues, such as abolishing the filibuster and aspects of Biden's Build Back Better Plan. Sinema's stance on the filibuster was sharply criticized by others...
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    politician, Gallego was critical of Senator Kyrsten Sinema for opposing filibuster reform and Democratic legislation. Democratic Party members and liberal...
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  • preserved. The filibuster is an obstructionary tactic used to defeat bills and motions by prolonging debate indefinitely. A filibuster may entail, but...
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