Despite his sterling credentials and the bipartisan support that he enjoys, Republicans filibustered this nomination.
Because the very same people that proposed a deficit commission then filibustered the deficit commission.
Democrats filibustered President George W. Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador.
Yet a minority of senators filibustered to block the renewal of the Patriot Act when it came up for a vote yesterday.
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When Republicans filibustered her nomination in 2011, several of them hung their objections not on her qualifications or her judicial philosophy, but on the D.
Then-senator Obama filibustered or supported a filibuster of Judge Sam Alito.
Ten of Mr Bush's judges were filibustered in his first term.
This spring's legislative effort to ban the machines passed overwhelmingly in the house, then was filibustered to death in the senate, but is sure to resurface next year.
Her nomination had previously been filibustered by Democrats.
Not only does his route imply that we must elect a Republican president in 2012, but that we must elect more than 60 Republican senators -- because so many of the changes Republicans want can be filibustered.
When something gets filibustered and we take 30 hours to debate it, and then the ultimate vote is 88 to 10, is the -- was the filibuster predicated on anything else other than watching the clock wind around?
And the Senate put forward a bill that Republicans filibustered that would have brought down the sequester and postponed the implementation of the sequester in a way that would have allowed Congress to pursue the broader deficit reduction package through regular order.
Guided by his old friend Ted Olson, who is now in private law practice, Giuliani assembled a Justice Advisory Committee that included Steven Calabresi, one of the founders of the Federalist Society, and Miguel Estrada, whose nomination to the federal bench in 2001 was filibustered by Democrats for more than two years, before he finally withdrew.
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