Sentences with phrase «filibuster since»

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),

There have been «real» filibusters since 1917, like Strom Thurmond's famous Civil Rights Act filibuster, but those were largely for show or to make a point.

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Democrats can filibuster any legislation that goes through the normal Senate process, since Republicans only control 52 seats.

Of course the bill's doomed on the Senate floor, since Republicans would no doubt filibuster it out of existence, but that's not enough for the grandly - titled «Public Advocate of the United States,» one Eugene Delgaudio of Loudon County, Virginia.

The answer is that since November 2013 a simple majority has sufficed because of the Senate's decision to end the use of the filibuster in respect of all nominees to Federal judicial and executive branch positions other than to the Supreme Court itself.

The filibuster failed when the Senate invoked cloture for only the second time since 1927.

Since rule changes can be filibustered the same as any other vote, cloture can be required on them.

The bill has been stalled in the Senate since September, lacking sufficient votes to break a likely Republican filibuster.

It has been introduced in Congress, but never ratified, a dozen times since 2001, coming closest to passing when it fell during a Senate filibuster in 2007.