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A tactic used by a legislative representative to hinder and delay consideration of and action to be taken on a proposed bill through prolonged, irrelevant, and procrastinating speeches on the floor of the House, Senate, or other legislative body. A filibuster is stopped by cloture, a legislative procedure that enables a vote to be taken on the proposed measure. filibuster noun attempt to obstruct legislation, blockage, cunctation, delay, delay in legislation, dilatory obstruction, hindrance, impediment, interference, obstruction to congressional action, prevention of congressional action, protraction, retardation, retardment, stalling, stoppage See also: delay, detain, forestall, hold up, procrastinate, prolong, protract, restrain, stall How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``Among the topics in his entertaining fillibuster, he roasted Allen Iverson for his constant shooting, ripped the Sixers for putting Iverson with Derrick Coleman and Jerry Stackhouse, took all young players to task for putting scoring ahead of winning, blasted the NBA for cracking down on physical play and not letting players complain about officials' calls and, of course, talked about himself. |
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