The Republicans are filibustering and any solution is going to require 60 votes to go forward.
Democrats in Congress can blame Republicans for holding middle-class tax cuts hostage, filibustering for the rich.
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When you filibuster something that is ultimately approved with 88 or 90 votes, what were you filibustering?
Some abusers could try to wreck the process by filibustering, but that will be caught on camera.
The senators who are filibustering must stop their delaying tactics, and the Senate must vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
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And he ripped Dole for repeatedly filibustering attempts to clean up the campaign finance system when he was in the Senate.
Senate Republicans blocked a motion to allow Mr. Hagel's nomination to proceed more than a week ago, effectively filibustering the nominee.
The filibustering old bulls of that era were regarded as malefactors of the worst order by progressives in both parties and by much of the general public.
The Senate has yet to establish whether the minority party can be prevented from filibustering judges who have made it through committee to the floor of the Senate.
"I discovered that there are some limits to filibustering, and I'm going to have to go and take care of one of those in a few minutes, " Paul said.
Filibustering the conference report - to say nothing of the boast last month by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid that opponents had "killed the Patriot Act" - is not.
Hugely controversial, the initial Bill was blocked after a mammoth filibustering exercise involving a speech lasting several hours by the then Labour MP for Cardiff West, Rhodri Morgan - the original rebel without a pause.
The GOP opposition to any kind of tax rate increase has stalled deficit negotiations for two years and led to unusual political drama, such as McConnell recently filibustering a proposal he introduced and Thursday night's rebuff by House Republicans of the alternative tax plan pushed by Boehner, their leader.
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