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- noun See
filibuster .
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- noun Alternative form of
filibuster .
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Examples
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They are wrong. the abuse of the fillibuster is a prime example.
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Frist talks to USA Today and says a showdown on the fillibuster is all but inevitable.
05/02/2005 2005
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The fillibuster is now being abused and has destroyed majority rule.
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Even if, in the end, only a smaller stimulus could garner the votes of Snowe and Specter to break a fillibuster, Obama could then have blamed high unemployment on Republicans for blocking an adequate stimulus, instead of trying to defend anemic economic growth and continued high unemployment as "progress".
Miles Mogulescu: Demand Obama Grow a Pair and Not Cave in to Republicans on Tax Cuts for Rich Miles Mogulescu 2010
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Even if, in the end, only a smaller stimulus could garner the votes of Snowe and Specter to break a fillibuster, Obama could then have blamed high unemployment on Republicans for blocking an adequate stimulus, instead of trying to defend anemic economic growth and continued high unemployment as "progress".
Miles Mogulescu: Demand Obama Grow a Pair and Not Cave In to Republicans on Tax Cuts for Rich: Sign the Petition Miles Mogulescu 2010
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Does anyone reallly think that if the Democrats have 58 or 59 votes to break a fillibuster for a bill which includes Reid's public option opt-out, the White House doesn't have the influence to twist arms for those last one or two Blue Dog Democratic votes if it wanted to?
Miles Mogulescu: Who's Killing the Public Option? President Obama With a Rahm-Bow 2009
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Also, to break a fillibuster should take 2/3 majority of the entire senate, not just 3/5 as now.
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Will DeLay call a fillibuster to debate whether or not Vivica is actually A.
'Dancing With the Stars': All reality TV is local | EW.com 2006
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If Frist's reason for eliminating the fillibuster is the second one, then it is as Richard Cohen says, cynical, unprincipled, hypocritical, and pretty damn cowardly of him, .
Lance Mannion: 2005
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If Frist's reason for eliminating the fillibuster is the second one, then it is as Richard Cohen says, cynical, unprincipled, hypocritical, and pretty damn cowardly of him, .
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