Sentences with phrase «blocks filibuster»

Prospects for the anti-smoking bill's eventual passage dimmed considerably when the Senate failed to block a filibuster on the measure last week.

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But they had one problem: They held only 52 seats in the Senate; under the usual legislative process, where a bill can be filibustered and held up if 41 senators oppose it, Democrats could block any repeal plan.

The measures were the subject of intense debate in the state and gained national attention after Sen. Wendy Davis staged a day - long filibuster in an attempt to block the vote.

It appears to me that for budget purposes, the «reconciliation» process could be used by Senate leadership to pass legislation providing funding, circumventing the anticipated Democratic filibuster to block such legislation.

In the U.S. Senate, the filibuster allows a single senator to effectively block a vote by way of the senate rules that allow for unlimited debate, but now, the senate rules have somehow been modified so that to invoke filibuster you don't even need to actually have «debate» where you do silly things like read names from the telephone book to keep the debate going.

In the U.S. Senate, the filibuster allows a single senator to effectively block a vote by way of the senate rules that allow for unlimited debate, but now, the senate rules have somehow been modified...

During WWI a Senate filibuster blocked one of President Wilson's proposals, and he decided enough was enough and moved for a way to override filibusters.

The most common form of filibuster occurs when a senator attempts to delay or block a vote on a bill by extending debate on the measure.

keeping hurricane relief separate from the debt ceiling, and combining the raising of the debt ceiling with spending cuts (potentially eliminating the Democrat ability to filibuster since they could not block raising the debt ceiling),

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy held the floor on Wednesday night in a «filibuster,» a tactic that enables lawmakers to block proceedings.

Gillibrand also reiterated Schumer's warning against using the so - called «nuclear option» to ram Gorsuch's confirmation through — that is, changing Senate rules to block use of the filibuster.

Yes, the Dems will continue to filibuster judges, and block the President on a few issues, but consider this....

In July 2013, the nuclear option was raised as nominations were being blocked by Senate Republicans as Senate Democrats prepared to push through a change to the chamber's filibuster rule.

In a 51 - 48 vote, the Senate prohibited any motion to waive the rules after a filibuster is defeated, [21][22][23] although this change did not affect the ultimate ability of a 41 - vote minority to block final action via an initial filibuster.

Democrats have the ability to demand changes in the spending bills because Republicans do not have enough Senate votes to block a Democratic filibuster in that chamber.

In this respect I believe that the Brits have a leg up on America, where politicians are so concerned with undermining the opposing party, with filibustering, and blocking legislation at every turn, that debate on actual issues seems to be a foreign concept.

During an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gillibrand took Sen. John McCain to task for filibustering to block the bill, saying his argument in favor of waiting for a military report doesn't hold water because today's vote would merely have given officials the go - ahead to repeal DADT, not directed them how to do that.

By saying Gorsuch's nomination will have a cloture vote, Schumer indicated that Democrats will try to block Gorsuch's nomination through a filibuster — which they can do unless Gorsuch can earn 60 votes from the 100 - member Senate.

(CNN)- Goodwin Liu, a California law professor nominated by President Barack Obama for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Thursday for his name to be withdrawn after Senate Republicans had invoked a rarely used filibuster to block a final floor vote.

The Senate's Republican minority has promised a filibuster, and Lieberman would give the GOP enough votes to succeed in blocking the bill.

Senate Democrats also would have the filibuster in order to block legislation, which means that there would not likely be any efforts to get rid of the filibuster.

The default rate is high, and legislation that would have allowed students to negotiate a lower interest rate, the way people do with mortgages, was blocked in the U.S. Senate by a Republican filibuster.

President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on climate change, like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.

At first, that will mean an effort to block Trump's plans, perhaps by convincing Senate Democrats to block appointments or use the filibuster.