Sentences with phrase «filibuster last»

Joining the protest was Sen. Chris Murphy, D - Conn., who had waged a nearly 15 - hour filibuster last week to force votes in the Senate on gun legislation.

Karen Tumulty captured an interesting internet - fueled dynamic around Rand Paul's Senate filibuster last week:

Despite her famous 13 - hour filibuster last year against new abortion legislation in Texas, Sen. Wendy Davis says she actually supports a 20 - week ban on abortion.

Last year, he put on a 13 - hour filibuster last year to hammer home his point that drones shouldn't be used to kill U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

Some of the filibusters last longer than 8 hours.

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The tweets were interspersed with one mentioning other stories the organization was covering as well as updates from the filibuster that lasted into the early morning.

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch delivered an effective filibuster at a congressional hearing in Washington last week.

I would also like to add to @sabbahillel's answer that when the Democrats last controlled the Senate, they changed the Senate rules and eliminated the filibuster on federal judge appointments to make it easier for the Senate to approve the appointments of the Obama administration.

The future makeup of the court depends upon imponderables like the outcome of presidential elections and the makeup of the Senate (and its filibuster rules, as we saw last week).

Senate Democrats including Sen. Charles E. Schumer were exultant last week after a 15 - hour filibuster yielded the seemingly impossible: A commitment to hold votes to expand gun - purchaser background checks and keep potential terrorists from buying guns.

Booker joined Murphy last summer during a high - profile filibuster over Republicans» unwillingness to hold votes in the Senate on gun control legislation.

Most amusingly of all, Dennis Skinner felt that the most noteworthy piece of parliamentary oratory of the last one hundred years came from the member for Bolsover - one Dennis Skinner - in a filibuster against opponents of stem cell research.

Prior to 1988, the last time the procedure had been used was during a 1942 filibuster over civil rights legislation.

, who led the 15 - hour filibuster in the Senate last week, showed up to encourage Democrats.

State Senator Wendy Davis, D - Fort Worth, who last month filibustered a bill to restrict abortion rights in Texas, is frequently mentioned as a potential Democratic contender.

A marked - up version of that bill cleared the Senate HELP Committee last month, again on a party - line vote, although it's unlikely to attract the sixty votes needed to avoid a fatal filibuster on the Senate floor.

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

This month a last - minute filibuster shelved several of Ms Martinez's education reforms, including a new teacher - evaluation system.

Attempting to bring the project full circle, Dodd presents the culmination of the turbulent journey through time and space set inside the grumbly, rumbling Catfish studio, its» belly burping and bumping along the ocean floor through heat and sleet, though coup to calm, through leaks, bursts, filibusters and b - flat notes, a kidneys» need, a tickle in the throat... and the final upheaval of the roaring storm whose ochre radius swung down and pointed with pin prick precision straight to Catfish and with the last clap of thunder deafly pronounced: «THE FOSS GOES ON!

Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, last captured the nation's attention with his passionate sort - of - filibuster that took on the rising income inequality gulf in America, and skewered a political culture that increasingly favors the

Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, last captured the nation's attention with his passionate sort - of - filibuster that took on the rising income inequality gulf in America, and skewered a political culture that increasingly favors the wealthy and corporate interests.

The last time the legislation was taken up, she said, it came two votes shy of cloture, which is a procedure that enables a bill to be considered on the Senate floor without the possibility of a filibuster.