Sentences with phrase «n't filibuster»

«For once, the Republicans can't filibuster this,» McKibben said about the pipeline decision being up to the executive branch.

This was not a filibuster, which only exists in the U.S. Senate.

Axelrod also said Sunday that Senate Republicans should not filibuster Sotomayor's nomination, even though Democrats in the Senate have mounted filibusters against Republican judicial nominees in recent years.

While Ted Cruz did give a speech for many consecutive hours, it was not a filibuster.

Not exact matches

The bottom line is that when Trump blames the filibuster as his primary obstacle to achieving more legislative wins, he is often ignoring underlying factors, mainly that in most cases Republicans can not agree enough to make good on years of promises.

While Congress is in the hands of a Republican majority, getting Democrats to go along with cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans — as is Trump's plan — will be a tough sell; while the Republicans control the Senate, the Democratic minority could filibuster bills they don't like.

Plus, Republicans won't have a filibuster - proof Senate majority.

«Who knows, maybe in two years, the filibuster won't seem like a big deal,» he added.

Though other Senators could take the podium to ask questions, Paul was not allowed to leave the floor during the filibuster.

Bolt smiled, said he expected the query, and didn't answer, filibustering with Phelps platitudes.

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.

If the proposal doesn't comply with the Senate's rules, an ensuing fight could pit conservatives against moderates and institutionalists — and could edge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) closer to completely eliminating the legislative filibuster, a move with far bigger implications than health care policy.

But we need not depend just on the Congress doing the right thing (I remain doubtful that this bill will survive a Democratic filibuster in the Senate).

Senate Finance Committee aides said they planned to make adjustments to the legislation because it probably does not comply with the rules for a special Senate procedure they hope to use to pass the bill with 50 votes, rather than the 60 votes typically needed to beat a filibuster.

So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

The Senate Republicans didn't have the votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

But the news «isn't a big victory» for Sen. Wendy Davis, who famously filibustered against the laws (see below), notes Atlantic Media's National Journal.

In a Wall Street Journal article defending the importance of the Senate filibuster, Sasse made the case that the impulse — prevalent among Democrats and, increasingly, Republicans — to circumvent this process in order to effectuate a particular result is in fact «radical,» not «conservative.»

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

Fast - tracking, according to journalist Dave Johnson enables Congress to agree «to set aside its duties under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and vote on TPP within 90 days of it being signed, to severely limit discussion and debate, not to filibuster the agreement in the Senate and not to amend it not matter what problems turn up after the agreement is revealed».

But in two - hour games over 10 furious days, hockey put aside money (not to mention fighting, scrums after whistles and filibusters that masquerade as face - offs) in a series of compelling matches that captivated a usually indifferent viewing public.

And as children this age establish their independence and become aware of things they can control, it's not unlike them to turn into a filibustering politician bargaining for one more story or to stay up for one more commercial break before bedtime.

It claims that they can't use reconciliation because there is a filibuster.

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.

to complete the answer to the question, I would add: So, no the filibuster can not be stopped by silencing the minority unless every member of the minority spoke in a way to violate Senate Rule XIX

Moreover, when the Senate changed its filibuster rules in 2013, so that judicial nominees were exempt, the change did not extend to Supreme Court nominees.

I don't think these Senators are likely to filibuster any of Trump's agenda.

Finally, filibusters are rare, not the least of which is that they are taxing physically.

Reconciliation is a specific process of passing a budget bill and, as a result can not be filibustered by the Senate.

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.

Because of this limited debate, reconciliation bills are not subject to the filibuster in the Senate.

Unfortunately, it seems the most recent edition is from 1992, and therefore it would not contain, for example, the new filibuster rules.

Wikipedia says that the filibuster in the United States Senate is a Senate rule that allows a senator to talk as long as he does not give up the floor, unless a special vote is taken to stop debate.

If there's no filibuster, then they don't have to take risky votes to uphold it.

So I think Dems would be ok to filibuster unimportant politically pieces of legislation or something a GOP Senator wanted that wasn't necessarily on Trump's plan.

Also appointments other than to the Supreme Court are not subject to a filibuster.

As in, doesn't it only affect the issue being filibustered in the moment?

Bullshit, suggests Chait: Obama has in fact «used exactly the kind of rhetoric Westen accuses him of refusing to deploy,» but structural and practical obstacles like «special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macroeconomic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public opinion» can defeat the loftiest of presidential speeches.

The GOP doesn't have the 60 votes in the Senate required to avoid a Democratic filibuster.

At the moment the Democrats do not have the ability to filibuster for court nominations (except scotus)

The Senate agreed and eliminated this option from their rules, which now made unbreakable filibusters possible; they didn't actually happen for a few decades.

There was an order in there titled «To provide for expedited Senate consideration of certain nominations subject to advice and consent», but this did not appear to be the new filibuster rule.

The most obvious mechanism, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will set out for the President - elect, will be a Reconciliation Bill by which, because such bills are exempt from filibuster provisions in the Senate, spending and revenue - raising decisions can be driven through not just the House but also the Senate on majority votes.

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),

It's also worth noting that it was not voted down but filibustered.

With so much on the line, Senate Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee like Mr. Kaine had hoped to not only rally the 34 senators needed to sustain a presidential veto, but also to possibly keep enough Democrats behind the president to filibuster a resolution of disapproval next month.

Republicans did not repeal the filibuster.

I know there's some overlap there, but the point of budget reconciliation is that a filibuster can't stop it, so you only need 50 votes.

The fruit of these efforts is not the hoped - for Republican governing majority, but the real prospect of a filibuster - proof Democrat majority in 2009.

These aren't issues likely to trigger a Republican filibuster.