| There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination. |
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| That's been a conservative argument since 2003, when the Republicans gained the majority and the Democrats began filibustering. |
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| If they go back to filibustering, the constitutional option's still on the table, and the trigger will be pulled. |
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| Which is exactly what Paul Martin has been doing by canceling Opposition days and filibustering his own budget. |
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| Hatch returns to the 1995 status quo and the Democrats agree to stop filibustering. |
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| By filibustering, senators attempt to prevent a vote on a measure or amendment. |
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| Democrats are currently filibustering two of President Bush's hard right conservative judicial nominees. |
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| The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering. |
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| This parliamentary session had to go into overtime to get anything accomplished after months of filibustering their budget. |
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| A less fantasy-based analysis might have focused more on the memory of Dixiecrats filibustering civil rights legislation. |
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| The Democrats likely would retaliate by filibustering all Republican bills. |
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| A person's journey from the cradle to the grave should be filled with joyous revelation, not filibustering and legislation. |
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| There's nothing in anything that was done last night that prevents us from filibustering somebody that's extreme. |
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| We had reached a point where the Democrats were filibustering judicial nominees relatively routinely. |
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| You don't need editorializing, grandstanding, or filibustering to get meaningful answers. |
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| There are some very key bills to get to tonight, and I would hate to think the two main parties were filibustering in an attempt to avoid getting to them. |
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| My understanding of it is that that side had been filibustering in that particular committee. |
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| The committee is now filibustering and making the Conservative Party look silly. |
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| First, if the Senate Democrats have the will to continue filibustering Bush's conservative nominees, a 15-year term limit is not likely to break that will. |
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| You have indulged in a little parliamentary filibustering, but what is done is done, there is nothing we can do about it now. |
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| I am absolutely flabbergasted that the member of the House of Commons would dare talk about filibustering in a negative fashion. |
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| The Democrats were filibustering, and the Republicans needed a 60-vote supermajority to end the filibuster and bring the proposal to the floor for a vote. |
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| And now there are senators who are filibustering The Patriot Act. |
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| It is filibustering its own opposition day to avoid holding the government accountable. |
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| All it has got left is petty vindictiveness, bullying procedural tactics, filibustering, shutting down opposition debate on important issues. |
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| The president is basically banging on the Democrats and saying they were leading this filibuster of the Patriot Act, and it's true that mostly it was Democrats filibustering. |
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| I have not had those instructions before, especially when the government is filibustering from its benches, but I will try. |
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| Senator Rand Paul, the filibustering, anti-drone, fresh-faced Kentucky Republican Party savior got a Snapchat account. |
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| I think he has written the book on filibustering and wasting the time of the House on any number of issues. |
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| The government members are the ones obstructing and filibustering during discussions on the environment. |
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| If you are going to indulge in filibustering, then it is going to take hours. |
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| Considerable effort had to be made to counteract these attempts to slow down certain bills by filibustering. |
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| As he said in his speech, the Conservative Party has been filibustering that committee for several months now. |
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| The unelected, unaccountable Liberal senators are filibustering and preventing this important bill from advancing. |
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| I can go back to last week where the government was filibustering bills also. |
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| There will be no filibustering tactics to prevent this bill from being adopted. |
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| Ditto pretending joy when there is none, stockpiling savage resentment or filibustering via nefarious hurty footwear. |
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| Finally, could he enlighten the House as to how he thinks the business of Parliament is expedited by the constant filibustering in a number of committees by members of the government. |
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| Paul's speech matches the all-time Commons record for non-stop speaking, set by Henry Brougham in 1828, although since that speech was not actually for filibustering purposes, presumably Brougham was just a windbag. |
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| It would leave intact the 60-vote threshold for breaking filibusters, but restore the requirement that filibustering senators actually take to the floor and talk until the majority gives up. |
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| When Wendy Davis, a Texas state senator, spent 10 hours on her feet filibustering a bill that aimed to restrict abortion, her supporters turned to Amazon, the online retailer, to skewer opponents. |
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| I implore members to stop filibustering and move this forward so we can all work in the best interests of our constituents and take into account rural Canadians. |
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| I believe there to be a certain amount of political filibustering at play here, in deliberately slowing things down, so there is not enough time to answer all the questions. |
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| It is a bit rich when he talks about filibustering and suggests that our members should not utilize that completely legitimate parliamentary tactic when necessary to make a point. |
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| The member talks about us filibustering, but the biggest filibuster of all was proroguing Parliament, which meant this bill had to start at the beginning. |
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| At the same time, we need a procedure for publicising complaints and the inertia or filibustering of the authorities against which the complaint has been made in the petitioner's country. |
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| Therefore, there should be no more parliamentary manoeuvring and filibustering and I believe that the question should be cleared up, and it has been cleared up, by a majority in this House. |
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| With us being first nations, we have to progress one step at a time to get everything done or try to meet everybody's needs as first nations, but what I see here today is an attempt at filibustering, at stalling. |
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| The high vacancy rate has been attributed to politics, particularly Senate filibustering of potential appointees by Senators. |
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| This threat to end the filibuster's privileged position in the Senate was intended to end Republican filibustering of NLRB nominees. |
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| In local unitary authorities of England a motion may be carried into closure by filibustering. |
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| Conservative Member of Parliament Tom Lukiwski is known for his ability to stall Parliamentary Committee business by filibustering. |
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| In Italy, filibustering has ancient traditions and is expressed overall with the proposition of legal texts on which interventions take place. |
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| Nevertheless, in the era of Manifest Destiny, his filibustering project was popular in the southern and western United States and the jury took eight minutes to acquit him. |
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| Filibustering is a danger, as an opponent of a bill can waste much of the limited time allotted to it. |
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