filibuster

Cloture, which is what we usually mean when we talk about the filibuster today, came much later in the Senate’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

People often picture the filibuster as one senator standing and speaking for hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The legislation still faces a full Senate vote and requires seven Democratic votes to avoid a filibuster.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

So it’s a bit like a filibuster, except she’s just sitting in an empty room.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025

There was even a type of speech called the filibuster, whose sole purpose was to waste time.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The 60-year-old lawyer has pledged to protect "natural wealth" from "21st-century filibusters who want to privatise everything" if she wins.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

Justice John Paul Stevens pressed Bopp on whether the ads were genuinely intended to influence Sen. Feingold’s stance on filibusters.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

Together they ruminate about the good old days of L.A. when they’re not storming city council meetings with dramatic filibusters about bus schedules.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Colin Robinson filibusters with fabricated stories about his nonexistent children and defends empty stances simply to drain his audience of their will to live.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

However, El Morro of Santiago de Cuba which had been blown up by filibusters a few years before, was rebuilt under his orders.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

The resolution cannot be filibustered, and needs just a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

Those concerns did not deter Slama on Thursday, who filibustered for the allowed two hours on the final round of debate on the bill.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion.

From Salon ● May 8, 2023

When other ambassadors filibustered, she would wear a snail pin to demonstrate her impatience.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

He actually got these boys to think it could be filibustered into his possession.

From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

Leadbeater has said the majority of peers back her proposals but that a small group of opponents were trying to talk the bill out, also known as filibustering.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

He literally makes no sense half the time and the rest of the time he's filibustering, lying, bullying and deflecting.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

The filibustering, formally one of the Dodgers’ allotted five mound visits for the game, proved effective.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Skill at filibustering is less valued in her new profession.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

"My kid," Hambro said, "filibustering against going to bed. A real sea lawyer, that kid."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison