Apr 5, 2017 ... What is a “filibuster” anyway? A procedural method primarily used by the minority  party to delay or block legislation (or in this case, ...
Oct 21, 2016 ... A Conservative Party lawmaker on Friday filibustered a bill that would pardon gay  men still alive but who were convicted in the past of ...
Using the filibuster to delay or block legislative action has a long history. The term  filibuster -- from a Dutch word meaning "pirate" -- became popular in the 1850s ...
Feb 15, 2013 ... Senate Republicans don't want to call what they're doing to Chuck Hagel a  filibuster. It's really hard to define the word in such a way that it isn't.
1964: Civil Rights Filibuster Ended -- June 10, 1964.
I was filibustered.