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Bookmark or Share- Filibuster - HISTORYA filibuster is a political strategy in which a senator speaks—or threatens to speak—for hours on end to delay efforts to vote for a bill. The unusual tactic takes advantage of a U.S. Senate...
- What Is a Filibuster? Everything to Know About the Senate's Most ...The term, filibuster, became popular in the 1850s as a way to ensure debate over legislation in the Senate. It is a practice any lawmaker can take to slow down or block a bill from getting a...
- U.S. Senate: About Filibusters and ClotureU.S. Senate: About Filibusters and Cloture. About Filibusters and Cloture. The Senate tradition of unlimited debate has allowed for the use of the filibuster, a loosely defined term for action designed to prolong debate and delay or prevent a vote on a bill, resolution, amendment, or other debatable question.
- EXPLAINER: What’s the Senate filibuster and why change it?WASHINGTON (AP) — Minority Republicans used a Senate filibuster to block a Democratic bill that would have launched a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It was the first time under President Joe Biden that the GOP used the tactic to derail major legislation.
- EXPLAINER: What’s the Senate filibuster and why change it?Changing the filibuster rules is an idea backed by some Senate Democrats eager to advance Biden’s agenda in the evenly split 50-50 Senate. But Republicans are warning Democrats off any changes. Here’s a look at how the filibuster works in the Senate.
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