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

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested Congress could enact the idea through reconciliation, a process lawmakers used to pass a tax and spending law last year and avoid the filibuster.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Perhaps the most famous, and certainly the most romanticized, version of a filibuster took place in the film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 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

During the debate, he 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

The filibusters took advantage of the fact, and by their lying protests of love for Spain, captivated him and fooled him out and out for a time.

From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by St. Clair, Francis

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

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

In winning confirmation, Mr. Dellinger overcame the opposition of his two home-state Republican senators, Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, who briefly filibustered his nomination.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022

I filibustered twelve hours a day with a heavy pick and a spade, choppin' away the luxurious landscape that grew upon the right of way.

From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

State senators Danielle Conrad and Jen Day also joined the team in filibustering all legislation.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023

Sometimes they didn’t even realize that by filibustering with highly entertaining treatises on grasshoppers, mascot fights and the best Halloween candy, he never got around to answering the football questions.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

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

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison