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2. The Case Against the Senate Filibuster
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- The Case Against the Senate Filibuster.
- Each of these bills was killed in Congress because a filibuster frenzy has made majority rule the exception rather than the rule in the Senate. ...
- When senators filibuster, using parliamentary tactics to block the Senate from voting, they turn democracy on its head. Since the Senate's current rule require three-fifths of the Senate to break a filibuster, 41 members can hold the Senate hostage, even if 59 are ready to take action. ...
- The issue is not whether we are for or against whatever bill is the filibuster's victim. ...
- A filibuster frenzy gravely threatens our government's ability to act to meet the nation's pressing challenges.
- Today, the ever-present threat of a filibuster, whether by Republicans or Democrats, affects nearly every issue.
- Why? Because filibuster threats blocked efforts to fix the Gold Rush-era mining law requiring this giveaway and dozens more in the months ahead, giveaways of billions of dollars that come out of our pockets as taxpayers.
- The Founding Fathers would be appalled to learn that the framework they labored so valiantly to construct had been perverted by the filibuster.
- Some have suggested, for example, that the number of senators needed to break a filibuster might decline from 60 to 51 as a filibuster dragged on. ...
- Early 1997 likely is the next chance for filibuster reform; for information, contact Action, Not Gridlock at: (202) 383-5900.
3. Definition of filibuster - WordReference.com Dictionary
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- filibuster, filibusterer.
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4. The Interocitor: Phoney Filibuster
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- --> Phoney Filibuster The Senate "leadership" has scheduled a "debate" for today and tonight, to publicize the Democrats' mendacious filibuster of several appellate judges. ...
- Phoney Filibuster.
- The Senate "leadership" has scheduled a "debate" for today and tonight, to publicize the Democrats' mendacious filibuster of several appellate judges. ... UPDATE: Looking over at Lawrence Solum's excellent Legal Theory Blog, I note that Senate rules require a quorum to force a filibuster to continue, and only requires one opposing Senator to be present to prevent a vote. This makes breaking a large-minority filibuster impossible, since the filibustering side (alone) gets to use a tag team. ... Failing this, end the filibuster rule, at least for nominations. ...
5. National Review: Contra Estrada: Things I saw at the filibuster - filibuster against appeals-court nomination of Miguel Estrada
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- Senate / Political activity Featured Titles for News & Society Advocate, The Air & Space Power Journal Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches Airman Alaska All Hands American Enterprise American Forests American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The Approach Ebony Harper's Magazine Mother Jones National Review New Statesman Reason US News & World Report Washington Monthly View all titles in this topic » Hot New Articles by Topic Arts & Entertainment Automotive Business & Finance Computers & Technology Health & Fitness Home & Garden News & Society Reference & Education Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Arts & Entertainment Automotive Business & Finance Computers & Technology Health & Fitness Home & Garden News & Society Reference & Education Sports Contra Estrada: Things I saw at the filibuster - filibuster against appeals-court nomination of Miguel EstradaNational Review, March 10, 2003 by Byron York Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl. ...
- When Democratic senators began their filibuster of the appeals-court nomination of Miguel Estrada, there was a lot going on that you didn't see on C-SPAN.
- In the past, Sunstein has coached Democrats on the issue of judicial nominations, and it seemed no accident that he appeared in the Capitol during the Estrada filibuster. ...
- Or this scene: With the filibuster going on, members of conservative interest groups gathered in a Washington office to vent their anger at Republican strategy. Representatives of the Family Research Council, the Christian Coalition, Concerned Women for America, and other groups wanted Senate majority leader Bill Frist to cancel the recess to keep the filibuster going; keeping the talkathon alive on C-SPAN, they believed, would help grassroots activists build anger at Democrats. ...
- Meanwhile, on the Senate floor, the filibuster went on. ... " (Harkin's comments didn't make it into any press accounts of the filibuster. ...
- Much of the rest of the Democratic filibuster was made up of statements about Estrada's confirmation hearing that could charitably be referred to as misleading. ...
- Working long, long hours, Hatch appeared energized by the battle; in the midst of talking nearly non-stop during the filibuster, he held a committee meeting at which he talked with Democrats for two hours about nominations and then spent another half-hour talking with the press. "It should never have gotten this far," he said of the filibuster. ...
- As of this writing, the filibuster is set to resume immediately after the recess. ... On one track, their interest groups will be making phone calls and sending e- mails to moderate Democratic senators who might be persuaded to abandon the filibuster (it was just those Democrats, like Blanche Lincoln, Tom Carper, and Bill Nelson, whom Estrada was seeing during his visit to the Capitol). ...
6. U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Powers & Procedures > Filibuster and Cloture
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- Home > Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Powers & Procedures > Filibuster and Clotu.
- Filibuster and Cloture .
- Using the filibuster to delay debate or block legislation has a long history. In the United States, the term filibuster -- from a Dutch word meaning "pirate" -- became popular in the 1850s when it was applied to efforts to hold the Senate floor in order to prevent action on a bill. ...
- In the early years of Congress, representatives as well as senators could use the filibuster technique. ...
- The new Senate rule was put to the test in 1919, when the Senate invoked cloture to end a filibuster against the Treaty of Versailles. ...
- Many Americans are familiar with the hours-long filibuster of Senator Jefferson Smith in Frank Capra's film Mr. ... Long effectively used the filibuster against bills that he thought favored the rich over the poor. ...
- Wayne Morse Sets Filibuster Record .
- Civil Rights Filibuster Ended .
- Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment .
7. Gary Bauer claimed Republicans too "gentlemanly ... Media Matters for America
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- On the February 25 edition of Family News in Focus, Focus on the Family's daily radio broadcast, substitute host Keith Peters played a clip from an interview with Bauer, in which they discussed how "to get President Bush's judicial nominees past the Democrat filibuster blockade":.
- In fact, while Democratic senators used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's 229 first-term judicial nominees, it was Republicans who first initiated a filibuster against a judicial nominee in 1968, forcing Democratic president Lyndon Johnson to withdraw the nomination of Associate Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas to be chief justice. ... Senate website, "the first filibuster in Senate history on a Supreme Court nomination. " While conservatives have recently insisted that no filibuster actually occurred during the Fortas nomination process in order to claim that Democrats' filibustering is "unprecedented," a June 5, 2003, Congressional Research Service report described it as " t he first clear-cut example of the use of a filibuster against a nomination" and noted that a cloture vote took place:.
- The first clear-cut example of the use of a filibuster against a nomination, including taking a cloture vote, occurred in 1968 over President Lyndon B. ...
- " PFAW noted that current Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, now a primary critic of Democrats' opposition to Bush's judicial nominees, "was among those voting against cloture" -- in other words, supporting a filibuster -- on the Paez nomination.
8. Filibuster stalls SMSU name change - Columbia Missourian
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- Chuck Graham and other Democrats stalled a vote by holding the floor with a filibuster. ...
- Graham did not take the floor to begin his filibuster until after 9 p. ...
- It only takes 18 votes to override a filibuster and force a vote. ...
- A filibuster is when a legislator delays proceedings by delivering an extended speech. ...
9. On Lisa Rein's Radar: Let The Dems Know You Support Estrada Filibuster
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- The People Shrub Watch Things On Lisa Rein's Fair and Balanced Mind Today « Colin Admits That This Will Be A Long War | Main | More On The Estrada Filibuster » Estrada vs. The People February 13, 2003 Let The Dems Know You Support Estrada Filibuster .
- In any case: do it now guys! Thanks! Responding to thousands of our calls, Democrats have just launched a filibuster* to prevent the confirmation of Miguel Estrada to America's second-highest court. This filibuster is the first sign of real resistance to extremism in Congress and the White House.
- "Thank you for supporting the filibuster to block the Estrada nomination. ...
- "Please support the filibuster to block the Estrada nomination. ...
- A story on the filibuster in today's New York Times is at: http://www. ...
- Responding to thousands of our calls, Democrats have just launched a filibuster* to prevent the confirmation of Miguel Estrada to America's second-highest court. This filibuster is the first sign of real resistance to extremism in Congress and the White House.
- Weíve got to support this filibuster.
- "Thank you for supporting the filibuster to block the Estrada nomination. ...
- "Please support the filibuster to block the Estrada nomination. ...
- If you are asked why you support the filibuster, make some of the following points in your own words:.
- The filibuster is a bold move -- playing the Senate's ultimate ace -- and bold moves carry big risks. This filibuster is now the battle line on which everything we care about depends. Republicans will make every effort to peel Dems away from the filibuster.
10. The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED
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- Now that the Democrats in the Senate have accepted the New York Times' invitation to filibuster the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, one can only hope that at least a few of those Democrats will awaken to the constitutional implications of what they are doing. ...
- While warning that "the filibuster is not a tool to be used lightly," the Times has argued that the filibuster of Justice Owen's nomination, along with that of D. ...
- The effect of a filibuster is to prevent the Senate from taking a vote. ...
- Because the Constitution grants the Senate power to make its own rules, and because the Supreme Court has always deferred to those rules, even where other constitutional interests may be affected, there is little chance a federal court will question the Senate's use of the filibuster to defeat judicial nominations. But there are principles of constitutional significance that senators sworn to uphold the Constitution should consider before continuing the filibuster of judicial nominations. ...
- One might argue that by Senate rule a lesser majority could be set at 60 percent (the vote required to end a filibuster), but another constitutional provision makes clear that a simple majority is intended. ...
- Does this suggest that every filibuster ought to be viewed by the Senate as contrary to the Constitution, notwithstanding that the Supreme Court is unlikely to consider such a claim? Long tradition suggests not. But there is something different about the ongoing filibuster of the Estrada and now Owen nominations. ...
- Traditionally, a filibuster brought the business of the Senate to a standstill. No other matters could be considered until a filibuster was either abandoned or a cloture vote was successful. This assured that the minority position represented by the filibuster was strongly held in the face of the full pressures of democratic give and take. ... Robert Byrd calls the "casual, gentlemanly, good-guy filibuster. " This new 21st-century filibuster comes at no cost. ... There is no real difference between this kind of filibuster and having a rule requiring a 60 percent majority on a vote clearly intended to require only a simple majority. ...
11. Learn About Congress: FoC - FILIBUSTER
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- The Senate rule on Filibuster allows a Senator to take control of the Senate floor for hours and hours by talking at great length. ...
- The record for the longest filibuster goes to South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who held the Senate floor continuously for 24 hours and 18 minutes. ...
12. The West Wing: "The Stackhouse Filibuster"
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- "The rules of a filibuster are simple enough. ...
- and the President to change course on the subject of the filibuster but at first they can't figure out how to help. ...
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