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- noun Plural form of
fillibuster .
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Examples
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This idea of Franken being able to help break fillibusters is the best comedy he has been involved in.
Even with Franken, breaking up (a filibuster) is hard to do 2009
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This idea of Franken being able to help break fillibusters is the best comedy he has been involved in.
Even with Franken, breaking up (a filibuster) is hard to do 2009
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The plot to circumvent judicial fillibusters is another example of the administrations grab for power.
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While they were assured of a majority, 60 votes are necessary to override "fillibusters" - speeches by opposition politicians that go on so long that a law never comes to a vote.
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The "real" democrats will band together and vote for legislation to end any kind of fillibusters, utilize reconciliation, or anotherwords, WHAT EVER it takes to marginalize Lieberman – period.
Lieberman a major problem for Senate Democrats on health care 2009
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-- About six hundred adventurers, "fillibusters," undertook to effect the annexation of
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Whig and the Democratic -- do not essentially differ from each other in their action on the Slavery question, excepting that perhaps the greatest number of "fillibusters," or annexationists, exist among the Democrats.
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Broke the record for fillibusters and has taken a function designed to protect the minority and turn it into a tool for tyranny of the minority.
Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010
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Peter Gerdes: Alternatively, given the difficulty of passing the bill with republican fillibusters and the requirements of the reconciliation process they just shrugged and said, “We can just fix that latter.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Did Congress Understand the Health Bill It Passed? 2010
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Peter Gerdes: Alternatively, given the difficulty of passing the bill with republican fillibusters
The Volokh Conspiracy » Did Congress Understand the Health Bill It Passed? 2010
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