Word: filibusterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A student-led filibuster has continued for eight straight days at Princeton, during which students have been speaking around the clock to protest Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s proposed procedural change that would make it difficult for Democrats to block President Bush’s judicial nominees...
During a Senate filibuster, members of the minority party delay a vote put forth by the majority party by taking advantage of their unlimited time at the podium. Senators often speak for hours, even reading from encyclopedias and cookbooks, in order to block votes.
Student organizers said they have chosen to filibuster in order to show the merits of maintaining an open dialogue in bipartisan government.
“We feel that the Senate is a deliberative body and it’s always been intended to be such, and checks and balances are part of the whole system,” said Jason B. Vagliano, a senior at Princeton who is one of the organizers...
In order to galvanize support for such an unprecedented change, Republicans are yet again appealing to their base through the lowest common denominator by telling conservatives that the opposition to the removal of the filibuster from Congressional rules is an attack on people of faith. According to those like Dr...