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Filibuster

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

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"Although it is funny that most young people think filibustering is a slang sex term, I think it reveals a deeper problem that most 18- to 25-year-olds aren't engaged or educated in politics enough."

'Filibustering' Is A Sex Act According To Most Brits: Survey

But, as we discuss in Part II, the procedures that comprise the conventional option have been used throughout the history of the House and Senate to limit filibustering. Indeed, it has been the most common, conventional method of reforming the filibuster.

The conventional option

Changes that balance limits on filibustering with increased protection for minorities in other areas have the potential to ratchet down polarization and partisan recrimination.

Gridlock and Senate rules

filibustering exist because Senate Rules deliberately lack provisions

The majoritarian filibuster

--"[If] any Member [who signed the accord] considered that another Member was filibustering a judge under a circumstance that was not extraordinary, [then] any Member had the right to pull out of that agreement and to go back and say: I am going to use the constitutional option to change ...

A new judicial front opens: the "nuclear" or "constitutional" option

The filibustering against Myers, who was blocked last term and renominated for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, centers on the fact that when he was a lobbyist for mining and grazing interests during the 1990s, he dared to raise his voice against autocratic federal regulators.

Obstructionists at work

FILIBUSTERING JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS DOES NOT VIOLATE A PRESIDENT'S NOMINATING AUTHORITY

The constitutionality of the filibuster

(34) On May 6, 2003, I chaired a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights to examine the constitutional issues presented by the filibustering of judicial nominees.

Our broken judicial confirmation process and the need for filibuster reform

Smith Goes To Washington" Geoghegan describes staying up, one hot and sticky Chicago night, and working out some numbers in front of a fan about how few people a filibustering Senate faction can represent.

THE SECRET LIVES OF CITIZENS: Pursuing the Promise of American Life

federal authorities for breaking filibustering laws.

Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba

No present unwritten rule of the Senate, then, restrains today's senators from excessive filibustering. So, the authors of this book think that the Senate's written rules must be changed to do so.

Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate

Smith Goes to Washington to the contentious civil rights debates of the 1960's, the American public has witnessed the practice of filibustering in the Senate with both scorn and adoration.