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- noun Plural form of
filibusterer .
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Examples
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Shame the filibusterers into a vote with rhetoric of “X deserves an up/down vote”.
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Americans, despite the best efforts of Southern filibusterers, refused to conquer or annex densely populated regions of Mexico, Central America, or the Caribbean.
Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy 2010
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“They” of course are dark skinned people, and in particular the descendants of the slaves owned by the ancestors of the filibusterers.
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For clarity, the “They” in the last sentence refers to the filibusterers.
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Force wimpy Republicans like Lindsay Graham and John McCain to defend themselves as they vote with the filibusterers like Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer.
Durbin (D, D Majority) vs. Durbin (D, R Majority) on filibusters. | RedState 2010
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(Ezra Klein yesterday contrasted that to the multi-trillion dollar cost of the Bush tax cuts backed by the same conservative filibusterers.)
Bill Scher: It's Not About the Deficit, Part II: Conservatives Just Hate the Unemployed 2010
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So long as the filibusterers had the floor, the Senate could not engage in other business and the filibusterers were free to talk as long as they had the strength and observed the rules that permitted them to hold the floor.
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Koger was strongly supportive of the Lautenberg proposal, saying it, combined with the Senate's "Pastore rule," which requires debate to be germane to the topic at hand, would force filibusterers to defend their actions and increase the price of obstruction, putting it closer to what it was before the filibuster became a common tactic in the 1960s.
'The intent of both proposals is to make the Senate more like the Senate' 2010
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Make a mockery of the filibusterers so filibusting loses it's political appeal.
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Under Senate rules, filibusterers need to do no more than call for endless rounds of quorum calls.
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