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...

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...

A filibuster (from the Spanish filibustero), also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country...

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...

The Filibuster War or Walker affair was a military conflict between filibustering multinational troops stationed in Nicaragua and a coalition of Central...

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...

(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...

enterprise was known at the time as "filibustering". After settling in California and motivated by an earlier filibustering project of Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon...

: 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...

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...

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...

Orlando, Florida, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, launched a filibuster in the United States Senate, promising to hold the floor "for as long...

initiatives during the Obama administration, having made frequent use of the filibuster, and blocked many of President Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme...

threatened another filibuster, this one opposing any legislative proposals to expand federal gun control measures. The filibuster was attempted on April...

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...

Republican Majority over an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats. Senate Democrats used the filibuster to prevent the confirmation of ten conservative...

dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, ending the filibuster of the certified results and the threat of political violence in exchange...

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...

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...

Voters based on scores from 2017 to 2021. Demings supports eliminating the filibuster in the United States Senate. Demings has said that she seeks to keep firearms...

League of Conservation Voters in 2021. Padilla supports ending the Senate filibuster. Padilla supports immigrants' rights. On January 15, 2021, he said that...

preserved. The filibuster is an obstructionary tactic used to defeat bills and motions by prolonging debate indefinitely. A filibuster may entail, but...

of appeals nominee ever to be filibustered. Later, nine other conservative circuit court nominees were also filibustered. These nine were Priscilla Owen...

repository. Cortez Masto supports reforming the filibuster of the United States Senate into a talking filibuster. In October 2017, Cortez Masto condemned the...

constituent calls and emails to the Senate, demanding that senators end the filibuster and pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement...

a filibuster against Gorsuch's nomination to block his confirmation. However, Republicans invoked the "nuclear option", eliminating the filibuster with...

Gallego was critical of Senator Kyrsten Sinema over her opposition to filibuster reform and Democratic legislation. He was encouraged by other Democratic...

thirteen-hour-long filibuster to block Senate Bill 5, a measure which included more restrictive abortion regulations for Texas. The filibuster played a major...

nomination considered using a filibuster option in the attempt to block the nomination. Barbara Boxer said, "The filibuster's on the table." While other...

anti-civil rights senators were left with the filibuster as their only remaining tool. Overcoming the filibuster required the support of over twenty Republicans...