How to Use filibuster in a Sentence

filibuster

1 of 2 noun

• They engaged in a filibuster that lasted for over a week.
• In 2010, the bill passed in the House but failed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• The bill needs 60 Senate votes to overcome a filibuster.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• Democrats need to pick up 10 GOP votes to overcome a legislative filibuster to even get to a vote on the House bill.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2022
• That was enough to avert a filibuster and should clear its way for final passage.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• There is still the perennial problem of the filibuster.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• Because of the Senate's filibuster rules, 60 votes are needed to get the act through Congress.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
• The Senate avoided a filibuster and the passage of any amendments to get the bill across the finish line before the weekend.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 1 June 2023
• But that doesn’t seem likely, given that Democrats don’t have 60 votes to break the Senate filibuster.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2022
• So that means the Senate can’t vote to break the second filibuster until Sunday.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2024
• Both measures failed to overcome a filibuster in the state Senates.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
• The effort fell short of overcoming the Senate filibuster standard with a vote of 51-47.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• But the speech during the filibuster must be connected to the bill the legislature is trying to pass.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
• This legislation would have to pass the filibuster then, the Senate and the president's desk.
  — Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
• Now the Senate needs to do its job, pass the bill, and stop using the irrelevant filibuster rule as a reason to avoid the issue.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• But Republicans won the House and Democrats do not have the votes to eliminate the Senate filibuster to pass the measure.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2023
• Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• In the Senate, each bill needs support from at least 60 members in a process that could require as many as 30 hours of debate to dodge a filibuster.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• That still left the measure well short of the 10 Republicans needed to overcome a filibuster to block it.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
• Ten Republicans will need to support the bill in order to stave off a filibuster.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 21 July 2022
• Manchin also refused to blow up the filibuster earlier this year to pass the White House's rewrite of the nation's voting laws.
  — Haris Alic, Fox News, 25 July 2022
• Why, why did Republicans go a step further and get rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court justices as well?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• The measure needs 60 votes to overcome the filibuster, meaning at least 10 Republicans will have to vote for it.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 20 July 2022
• Schumer needs at least 10 Republicans to join the 50 members of the Democratic caucus and avoid a filibuster of a vote.
  — Gabe Ferris, ABC News, 20 July 2022
• The legislation advanced to the U.S. Senate but does not have enough support to survive in case of a filibuster.
  — Tom Krisher, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024
• After three attempts, the senators' filibuster failed to block the bill from passing.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 24 May 2023
• The vote came after a four-and-a-half hour filibuster that ended when the Senate approved a petition for cloture, or to end the debate.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 24 May 2023
• Those ideas are shaky ones and worthy of rebuttal, but here’s a note to Garvey: Neither the filibuster nor the size of the court is even mentioned in the Constitution.
  — Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The bill would likely need support from at least 60 senators to dodge a filibuster and make it to President Biden’s desk.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The tradition of the filibuster does not explicitly appear in the Constitution, which left it up to the chambers of Congress to determine their rules.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 Mar. 2024

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filibuster

2 of 2 verb

• But Democrats in the Senate would filibuster to block it.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• That’s why my own support for the right to filibuster, like Biden’s, has weakened.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• On Wednesday night, the Senate voted 28-10 to pass the ban, but the Democrats promised to filibuster the final vote.
  — refinery29.com, 7 May 2018
• Democrats vowed to block his appointment, though a change to the rules means that Supreme Court picks can no longer be filibustered.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Senators raise their hand to filibuster and go back to their states to raise more money.
  — Fortune, 18 Jan. 2022
• The right to filibuster is a simple rule that could be changed in minutes by a majority vote of the Senate.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• Most bills can be filibustered in the Senate and require a 60-vote threshold.
  — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 18 July 2017
• But in the real world, oration is to filibuster as essay writing is to texting.
  — Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• Manchin has expressed support to do away with one of the opportunities to filibuster a bill, but not all of them.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Democrats, it must be noted, did not filibuster and the hike of the artificial limit cleared with a 52-48 margin.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Oct. 2021
• But Senate Democrats can — and will — filibuster wall funding.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Aug. 2017
• Democrats lacked the votes to filibuster, and their grilling of Gorsuch wasn’t so much an indictment of his credentials as a spasm against the skulduggery that got him there.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
• The GOP can’t filibuster such a budget bill—a fact Democrats are counting on to pass their multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending binge.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
• Its rules, written for a two-party system, allow one deputy to filibuster a law.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Pro-Brexit peers in the Lords are threatening to try to stop it by filibustering until time runs out.
  — Danica Kirka, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Had the motion to end debate failed, then opponents could have attempted to filibuster the bill to death.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2018
• The other $131 billion of the spending-cap increase is meant to bribe Senate Democrats not to filibuster the new defense spending.
  — Brian Riedl, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
• The relatively large size of the group suggests the deal can survive attempts from far-right and far-left senators to filibuster it.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• Dyer introduced the bill at each subsequent session, and in 1922, the bill passed the House only to be filibustered in the Senate.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• If Republicans filibuster the Asian hate crimes bill, Democrats would likely use it to build their case.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2021
• Nick Saban has used a bully pulpit, filibustered and knows the power of polls.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• Other Democrats have called for a carve-out to filibuster rules specifically for voting rights bills.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Democrats only have 50 votes – not enough to stop debate and force a vote if Republicans decide to filibuster.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2021
• Without a change to filibuster rules, Republicans could block 2 voting rights bills in the Senate.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
• But even if all 53 Republicans in the chamber vote in favor of the bill, Democrats have vowed to filibuster the measure, leaving it unlikely to pass.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2020
• The women filibustered, taking the gifts to the podium on the Senate floor to declare themselves even more firmly in resistance.
  — Kate Zernike, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• This prompted lawmakers to filibuster even more, since all a senator had to do then was make his or her intent to block a bill known to leadership.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2022
• In all, just 35 Senate Republicans were able to filibuster the bill.
  — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• The filibustering, formally one of the Dodgers’ allotted five mound visits for the game, proved effective.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• There’s crude humor, filibustering, and wildly off-base red herrings.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023

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