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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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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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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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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Nuclear option (redirect from Nuclear option (filibuster))
: 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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United States Senate (section Filibuster and cloture)
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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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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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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The Speech (Sanders book) (redirect from Bernie sanders filibuster)
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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Mitch McConnell (section Use of the filibuster)
initiatives during the Obama administration, making frequent use of the filibuster, and blocked many of President Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme...
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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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Southern Caucus (redirect from Southern filibuster)
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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Rand Paul (redirect from March 2013 Rand Paul Filibuster of CIA Director (US Senate))
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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Wendy Davis (politician) (section 2013 filibuster)
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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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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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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budget legislation in the Senate. The procedure overrides the Senate's filibuster rules, which may otherwise require a 60-vote supermajority for passage...
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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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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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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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Catherine Cortez Masto (section Filibuster)
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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Kyrsten Sinema (section Senate filibuster)
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. By the time he ran for the U.S. Senate...
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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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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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session. Republican Senator Mike McDonnell, who had given the caucus a filibuster-proof majority when he switched his affiliation from Democratic, stated...
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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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of appeals nominee ever to be filibustered. Later, nine other conservative circuit court nominees were also filibustered. These nine were Priscilla Owen...
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