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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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    m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and 18 minutes. This made the filibuster the longest single-person filibuster in United States Senate history...
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    Kogler from giving his speech. The filibuster is a powerful legislative device in the United States Senate. Senate rules permit a senator or senators...
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  • in the wake of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, launched a filibuster in the United States Senate,...
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    the U.S. Senate The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership of the...
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  • United States senators are conventionally ranked by the length of their tenure in the Senate. The senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office...
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    ending filibusters in the United States Senate. In 1829, the sergeant at arms began supervising Senate pages, after the appointment of the first page. In 1854...
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    The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. The United States Senate and the lower chamber of Congress, the United States...
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    The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises...
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    The president pro tempore of the United States Senate (often shortened to president pro tem) is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States...
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    The 2024 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections. 33 of the 100 seats...
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  • The Standing Rules of the Senate are the parliamentary procedures adopted by the United States Senate that govern its procedure. The Senate's power to...
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  • relevant hostilities." The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 failed to overcome a Republican filibuster in the United States Senate in September, 2007....
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    The Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate, sometimes referred to as the Democratic Conference, is the formal organization of all senators who...
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    The 2008 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, 2008, with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. 33 seats were up for regular...
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    The 2024 United States Senate election in Arizona will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state...
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    campaigned in Georgia, because of the election's potential to determine whether the Democratic Party could block filibusters in the United States Senate. Historically...
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    The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 118th United States Congress...
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    The 2010 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2010, from among the United States Senate's 100 seats. A special election was held on...
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    Cloture (redirect from Filibuster proof)
    19 November 2008. "Filibuster and Cloture". United States Senate. Koger, Gregory Cloture Reform and Party Government in the Senate, 1918–1925, Journal...
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    in the United States Senate. Senators can be a member of more than one committee. As of 2017[update], there are 88 subsidiary bodies of the US Senate:...
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    The Senate Republican Conference is the formal organization of the Republican senators in the United States Senate, who number 49 as of 2023[update]. Over...
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    The 1980 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, coinciding with Ronald Reagan's victory in the presidential election. The 34 Senate seats...
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  • The 100 seats in the United States Senate are divided into three classes for the purpose of determining which seats will be up for election in any two-year...
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    Robert L. Wilkins (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit)
    central to the debate over the use of the filibuster in the United States Senate, leading to the use of the nuclear option to bring it to the floor for...
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  • In the United States Senate, the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority,...
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    The 2004 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2004, with all Class 3 Senate seats being contested. They coincided with the re-election...
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    The Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is the official advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation of Standing Rules of the United...
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  • This article covers the history of women in the United States Senate and various milestones achieved by female senators. It includes a list of all women...
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    The 1978 United States Senate elections were held on November 7, in the middle of Democratic President Jimmy Carter's term. The 33 seats of Class 2 were...
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