Definition of filibuster in English:

filibuster

noun ˈfɪlɪbʌstəˈfɪləˌbəstər

1An action such as prolonged speaking which obstructs progress in a legislative assembly in a way that does not technically contravene the required procedures.
Example sentencesExamples
- With a tie in the Senate, filibusters can go on indefinitely, and the vice president will become the swing vote on key bills.
- Yes, it is true that a filibuster, which only requires 40 votes to sustain, is possible.
- This guy claims not to have a view about whether Senate filibusters are constitutional.
- The 1980s saw the filibuster threat used about 90 times, including in 1989 to block a capital-gains tax cut.
- Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the Senate if Republicans end judicial filibusters.
- The filibuster rule has of course been the subject of occasional but profoundly important alteration.
- Such a ruling could be upheld by only 51 votes, rather than the 60 required to halt a filibuster.
- Ideally, he'd be able to claim that the Democrats' filibusters are unprecedented.
- However, 60 votes are required to end a filibuster.
- Far too often, prolonged filibusters by those who disagree doom an idea that the vast majority supports.
- The judicial filibuster is indeed an obstruction of last resort.
- In that event, breaking the filibuster would require 67 votes, a full 8 more than had been secured on Friday.
- She got 65 votes, five more than she needed to actually break the filibuster.
- In addition, if the judicial filibuster were ended by a vote of the Senate, it would vanish entirely.
- Because the filibuster is a negative procedure, and one that frustrates the will of a simple majority, it has a bad reputation.
- The current abuse of the filibuster requires a strong response, and we need positive action from the president.
- On presidential appointments - first, judges and now ambassador to the United Nations - they resort to the classic weapon of southern obstructionism: the filibuster.
- In an effort to further weaken the filibuster, the Senate in 1975 reduced the required number of votes from two-thirds to three-fifths.
- The procedural mechanism of the filibuster is designed for extraordinary circumstances.
- Nor is the Republicans' Senate majority great enough to prevent the Democrats defeating a nominee by means of a procedural filibuster.
Synonyms
delaying tactics, stonewalling, procrastination, obstruction, delaying, blocking, hold-up
informal speechifying, speechification
US informal kicking the can down the road
2historical A person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign state.

verb ˈfɪlɪbʌstəˈfɪləˌbəstər

[no object]often as noun filibustering

1Act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length.
a single obstinate senator could hold up legislation endlessly by filibustering
Example sentencesExamples
- That's been a conservative argument since 2003, when the Republicans gained the majority and the Democrats began filibustering.
- The president is basically banging on the Democrats and saying they were leading this filibuster of the Patriot Act, and it's true that mostly it was Democrats filibustering.
- There are some very key bills to get to tonight, and I would hate to think the two main parties were filibustering in an attempt to avoid getting to them.
- We were not the ones - we were not the ones filibustering, in other words.
- The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering.
- Hatch returns to the 1995 status quo and the Democrats agree to stop filibustering.
- I also forgot to say that if I was filibustering, I might very well try to get my hands on the screenplay of the All-American Frank Capra political classic: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
- Have you been filibustering?
- In this branch of Congress, such an approach allows filibustering to occur - when a bill is talked out of the time allocated to it.
- Senate Republicans have been filibustering for the last three months to block consideration of a Democratic version of the homeland security legislation, which retained some union and civil service protection.
- The Democrats were filibustering, and the Republicans needed a 60-vote supermajority to end the filibuster and bring the proposal to the floor for a vote.
- The Republicans were also filibustering against President Clinton's nominees, were they not?
- You don't need editorializing, grandstanding, or filibustering to get meaningful answers.
- Democrats say that nothing has changed, that they will continue filibustering to block judicial nominees whose politics are out of their ‘mainstream.’
- In the legislative session that ended in June, a lawmaker filibustered and killed a measure that would have placed a cap on the law.
- If they go back to filibustering, the constitutional option's still on the table, and the trigger will be pulled.
- It was of course a ploy to slow things down and to ensure that as each plane lands on Ulsan they're hoping for more votes to arrive, so they're filibustering, slowing things down, delaying, wasting time.
1. 1.1with object Obstruct (proposed legislation) with a filibuster.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Aside from filibustering the GOP's energy plan and blocking a handful of exceptionally reactionary judicial nominees, there are few success stories to which Democratic leaders can point.
  The Democrats likely would retaliate by filibustering all Republican bills.
  We had reached a point where the Democrats were filibustering judicial nominees relatively routinely.
  Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is among lawmakers who have promised to filibuster legislation allowing drilling in the refuge.
  Senate Democrats filibustered his nomination to the appeals court, and he accepted a recess appointment by Bush.
  There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination.
  And now there are senators who are filibustering The Patriot Act.
  Not all of the judges being filibustered, for instance, are equally extreme in their views.
  Which is exactly what Paul Martin has been doing by canceling Opposition days and filibustering his own budget.
  The Senate Democrats successfully filibustered the Federal medical malpractice awards act.
  Democrats are currently filibustering two of President Bush's hard right conservative judicial nominees.
  And with regard to what Ed said about the bill on the floor, actually there's a bipartisan majority in favor of the Democratic position, and now the Republicans seem to be filibustering the bill.
  Why do a few senators filibuster the nominee?
  ‘I think this is another way of filibustering the impeachment process,’ he said, adding that the opposition will take the case to the streets should the process break down.
  This parliamentary session had to go into overtime to get anything accomplished after months of filibustering their budget.
  The National Party then started to filibuster the bill.
  A handful of senators announced they would filibuster any energy legislation that opened up the area to drilling.
  But Ellis promised to filibuster the bill without his amendment.
  First, if the Senate Democrats have the will to continue filibustering Bush's conservative nominees, a 15-year term limit is not likely to break that will.
  Synonyms
  waste time, stall, play for time, stonewall, procrastinate, buy time, employ delaying tactics
  obstruct, delay, block
  speak/talk at length, speak/talk on and on
  informal speechify
  US informal kick the can down the road

Origin

Late 18th century: from French flibustier, first applied to pirates who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies. In the mid 19th century (via Spanish filibustero), the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states, whence sense 2 of the noun. The verb was used to describe tactics intended to sabotage US congressional proceedings, whence sense 1 of the noun.

A filibuster was an 18th-century pirate of the Caribbean. The word links a number of languages, reaching back through Spanish and French to vrijbuiter, from vrij ‘free’, and buit ‘booty’, a Dutch word from which we also get freebooter. In the 19th century the Spanish filibustero was used for American adventurers who stirred up revolution in Central and South America, and filibuster came to be used in the USA to describe behaviour in congressional debates intended to sabotage proceedings. From this we get the current sense, ‘a very long speech made in Parliament to prevent the passing of a new law’, which links the long-ago pirates with politicians of today.

Definition of filibuster in US English:

filibuster

nounˈfiləˌbəstərˈfɪləˌbəstər

1An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.
it was defeated by a Senate filibuster in June
Example sentencesExamples
- On presidential appointments - first, judges and now ambassador to the United Nations - they resort to the classic weapon of southern obstructionism: the filibuster.
- Because the filibuster is a negative procedure, and one that frustrates the will of a simple majority, it has a bad reputation.
- In an effort to further weaken the filibuster, the Senate in 1975 reduced the required number of votes from two-thirds to three-fifths.
- This guy claims not to have a view about whether Senate filibusters are constitutional.
- Such a ruling could be upheld by only 51 votes, rather than the 60 required to halt a filibuster.
- Ideally, he'd be able to claim that the Democrats' filibusters are unprecedented.
- However, 60 votes are required to end a filibuster.
- The judicial filibuster is indeed an obstruction of last resort.
- In addition, if the judicial filibuster were ended by a vote of the Senate, it would vanish entirely.
- Far too often, prolonged filibusters by those who disagree doom an idea that the vast majority supports.
- Yes, it is true that a filibuster, which only requires 40 votes to sustain, is possible.
- The procedural mechanism of the filibuster is designed for extraordinary circumstances.
- Nor is the Republicans' Senate majority great enough to prevent the Democrats defeating a nominee by means of a procedural filibuster.
- The 1980s saw the filibuster threat used about 90 times, including in 1989 to block a capital-gains tax cut.
- The current abuse of the filibuster requires a strong response, and we need positive action from the president.
- In that event, breaking the filibuster would require 67 votes, a full 8 more than had been secured on Friday.
- Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the Senate if Republicans end judicial filibusters.
- She got 65 votes, five more than she needed to actually break the filibuster.
- The filibuster rule has of course been the subject of occasional but profoundly important alteration.
- With a tie in the Senate, filibusters can go on indefinitely, and the vice president will become the swing vote on key bills.
Synonyms
delaying tactics, stonewalling, procrastination, obstruction, delaying, blocking, hold-up
2historical A person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign country.

verbˈfiləˌbəstərˈfɪləˌbəstər

[no object]often as noun filibustering

1Act in an obstructive manner in a legislature, especially by speaking at inordinate length.
a single obstinate senator could hold up legislation endlessly by filibustering
Example sentencesExamples
- The president is basically banging on the Democrats and saying they were leading this filibuster of the Patriot Act, and it's true that mostly it was Democrats filibustering.
- The Republicans were also filibustering against President Clinton's nominees, were they not?
- I also forgot to say that if I was filibustering, I might very well try to get my hands on the screenplay of the All-American Frank Capra political classic: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
- If they go back to filibustering, the constitutional option's still on the table, and the trigger will be pulled.
- In this branch of Congress, such an approach allows filibustering to occur - when a bill is talked out of the time allocated to it.
- You don't need editorializing, grandstanding, or filibustering to get meaningful answers.
- That's been a conservative argument since 2003, when the Republicans gained the majority and the Democrats began filibustering.
- In the legislative session that ended in June, a lawmaker filibustered and killed a measure that would have placed a cap on the law.
- It was of course a ploy to slow things down and to ensure that as each plane lands on Ulsan they're hoping for more votes to arrive, so they're filibustering, slowing things down, delaying, wasting time.
- Hatch returns to the 1995 status quo and the Democrats agree to stop filibustering.
- Have you been filibustering?
- Senate Republicans have been filibustering for the last three months to block consideration of a Democratic version of the homeland security legislation, which retained some union and civil service protection.
- The Democrats were filibustering, and the Republicans needed a 60-vote supermajority to end the filibuster and bring the proposal to the floor for a vote.
- There are some very key bills to get to tonight, and I would hate to think the two main parties were filibustering in an attempt to avoid getting to them.
- We were not the ones - we were not the ones filibustering, in other words.
- Democrats say that nothing has changed, that they will continue filibustering to block judicial nominees whose politics are out of their ‘mainstream.’
- The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering.
1. 1.1with object Obstruct (a measure) by filibustering.
  Example sentencesExamples
  And now there are senators who are filibustering The Patriot Act.
  Senate Democrats filibustered his nomination to the appeals court, and he accepted a recess appointment by Bush.
  First, if the Senate Democrats have the will to continue filibustering Bush's conservative nominees, a 15-year term limit is not likely to break that will.
  Democrats are currently filibustering two of President Bush's hard right conservative judicial nominees.
  The National Party then started to filibuster the bill.
  There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination.
  Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is among lawmakers who have promised to filibuster legislation allowing drilling in the refuge.
  Aside from filibustering the GOP's energy plan and blocking a handful of exceptionally reactionary judicial nominees, there are few success stories to which Democratic leaders can point.
  Why do a few senators filibuster the nominee?
  And with regard to what Ed said about the bill on the floor, actually there's a bipartisan majority in favor of the Democratic position, and now the Republicans seem to be filibustering the bill.
  But Ellis promised to filibuster the bill without his amendment.
  We had reached a point where the Democrats were filibustering judicial nominees relatively routinely.
  ‘I think this is another way of filibustering the impeachment process,’ he said, adding that the opposition will take the case to the streets should the process break down.
  The Senate Democrats successfully filibustered the Federal medical malpractice awards act.
  A handful of senators announced they would filibuster any energy legislation that opened up the area to drilling.
  Which is exactly what Paul Martin has been doing by canceling Opposition days and filibustering his own budget.
  This parliamentary session had to go into overtime to get anything accomplished after months of filibustering their budget.
  Not all of the judges being filibustered, for instance, are equally extreme in their views.
  The Democrats likely would retaliate by filibustering all Republican bills.
  Synonyms
  waste time, stall, play for time, stonewall, procrastinate, buy time, employ delaying tactics

Origin

Late 18th century: from French flibustier, first applied to pirates who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies. In the mid 19th century (via Spanish filibustero), the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states, whence filibuster (sense 2 of the noun). The verb was used to describe tactics intended to sabotage US congressional proceedings, whence filibuster (sense 1 of the noun).

单词	filibuster
释义	Definition of filibuster in English: filibuster noun ˈfɪlɪbʌstəˈfɪləˌbəstər 1An action such as prolonged speaking which obstructs progress in a legislative assembly in a way that does not technically contravene the required procedures. Example sentencesExamples With a tie in the Senate, filibusters can go on indefinitely, and the vice president will become the swing vote on key bills. Yes, it is true that a filibuster, which only requires 40 votes to sustain, is possible. This guy claims not to have a view about whether Senate filibusters are constitutional. The 1980s saw the filibuster threat used about 90 times, including in 1989 to block a capital-gains tax cut. Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the Senate if Republicans end judicial filibusters. The filibuster rule has of course been the subject of occasional but profoundly important alteration. Such a ruling could be upheld by only 51 votes, rather than the 60 required to halt a filibuster. Ideally, he'd be able to claim that the Democrats' filibusters are unprecedented. However, 60 votes are required to end a filibuster. Far too often, prolonged filibusters by those who disagree doom an idea that the vast majority supports. The judicial filibuster is indeed an obstruction of last resort. In that event, breaking the filibuster would require 67 votes, a full 8 more than had been secured on Friday. She got 65 votes, five more than she needed to actually break the filibuster. In addition, if the judicial filibuster were ended by a vote of the Senate, it would vanish entirely. Because the filibuster is a negative procedure, and one that frustrates the will of a simple majority, it has a bad reputation. The current abuse of the filibuster requires a strong response, and we need positive action from the president. On presidential appointments - first, judges and now ambassador to the United Nations - they resort to the classic weapon of southern obstructionism: the filibuster. In an effort to further weaken the filibuster, the Senate in 1975 reduced the required number of votes from two-thirds to three-fifths. The procedural mechanism of the filibuster is designed for extraordinary circumstances. Nor is the Republicans' Senate majority great enough to prevent the Democrats defeating a nominee by means of a procedural filibuster. Synonyms delaying tactics, stonewalling, procrastination, obstruction, delaying, blocking, hold-up informal speechifying, speechification US informal kicking the can down the road 2historical A person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign state. verb ˈfɪlɪbʌstəˈfɪləˌbəstər [no object]often as noun filibustering 1Act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length. a single obstinate senator could hold up legislation endlessly by filibustering Example sentencesExamples That's been a conservative argument since 2003, when the Republicans gained the majority and the Democrats began filibustering. The president is basically banging on the Democrats and saying they were leading this filibuster of the Patriot Act, and it's true that mostly it was Democrats filibustering. There are some very key bills to get to tonight, and I would hate to think the two main parties were filibustering in an attempt to avoid getting to them. We were not the ones - we were not the ones filibustering, in other words. The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering. Hatch returns to the 1995 status quo and the Democrats agree to stop filibustering. I also forgot to say that if I was filibustering, I might very well try to get my hands on the screenplay of the All-American Frank Capra political classic: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Have you been filibustering? In this branch of Congress, such an approach allows filibustering to occur - when a bill is talked out of the time allocated to it. Senate Republicans have been filibustering for the last three months to block consideration of a Democratic version of the homeland security legislation, which retained some union and civil service protection. The Democrats were filibustering, and the Republicans needed a 60-vote supermajority to end the filibuster and bring the proposal to the floor for a vote. The Republicans were also filibustering against President Clinton's nominees, were they not? You don't need editorializing, grandstanding, or filibustering to get meaningful answers. Democrats say that nothing has changed, that they will continue filibustering to block judicial nominees whose politics are out of their ‘mainstream.’ In the legislative session that ended in June, a lawmaker filibustered and killed a measure that would have placed a cap on the law. If they go back to filibustering, the constitutional option's still on the table, and the trigger will be pulled. It was of course a ploy to slow things down and to ensure that as each plane lands on Ulsan they're hoping for more votes to arrive, so they're filibustering, slowing things down, delaying, wasting time. 1.1with object Obstruct (proposed legislation) with a filibuster. Example sentencesExamples Aside from filibustering the GOP's energy plan and blocking a handful of exceptionally reactionary judicial nominees, there are few success stories to which Democratic leaders can point. The Democrats likely would retaliate by filibustering all Republican bills. We had reached a point where the Democrats were filibustering judicial nominees relatively routinely. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is among lawmakers who have promised to filibuster legislation allowing drilling in the refuge. Senate Democrats filibustered his nomination to the appeals court, and he accepted a recess appointment by Bush. There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination. And now there are senators who are filibustering The Patriot Act. Not all of the judges being filibustered, for instance, are equally extreme in their views. Which is exactly what Paul Martin has been doing by canceling Opposition days and filibustering his own budget. The Senate Democrats successfully filibustered the Federal medical malpractice awards act. Democrats are currently filibustering two of President Bush's hard right conservative judicial nominees. And with regard to what Ed said about the bill on the floor, actually there's a bipartisan majority in favor of the Democratic position, and now the Republicans seem to be filibustering the bill. Why do a few senators filibuster the nominee? ‘I think this is another way of filibustering the impeachment process,’ he said, adding that the opposition will take the case to the streets should the process break down. This parliamentary session had to go into overtime to get anything accomplished after months of filibustering their budget. The National Party then started to filibuster the bill. A handful of senators announced they would filibuster any energy legislation that opened up the area to drilling. But Ellis promised to filibuster the bill without his amendment. First, if the Senate Democrats have the will to continue filibustering Bush's conservative nominees, a 15-year term limit is not likely to break that will. Synonyms waste time, stall, play for time, stonewall, procrastinate, buy time, employ delaying tactics obstruct, delay, block speak/talk at length, speak/talk on and on informal speechify US informal kick the can down the road Origin Late 18th century: from French flibustier, first applied to pirates who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies. In the mid 19th century (via Spanish filibustero), the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states, whence sense 2 of the noun. The verb was used to describe tactics intended to sabotage US congressional proceedings, whence sense 1 of the noun. A filibuster was an 18th-century pirate of the Caribbean. The word links a number of languages, reaching back through Spanish and French to vrijbuiter, from vrij ‘free’, and buit ‘booty’, a Dutch word from which we also get freebooter. In the 19th century the Spanish filibustero was used for American adventurers who stirred up revolution in Central and South America, and filibuster came to be used in the USA to describe behaviour in congressional debates intended to sabotage proceedings. From this we get the current sense, ‘a very long speech made in Parliament to prevent the passing of a new law’, which links the long-ago pirates with politicians of today. Definition of filibuster in US English: filibuster nounˈfiləˌbəstərˈfɪləˌbəstər 1An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures. it was defeated by a Senate filibuster in June Example sentencesExamples On presidential appointments - first, judges and now ambassador to the United Nations - they resort to the classic weapon of southern obstructionism: the filibuster. Because the filibuster is a negative procedure, and one that frustrates the will of a simple majority, it has a bad reputation. In an effort to further weaken the filibuster, the Senate in 1975 reduced the required number of votes from two-thirds to three-fifths. This guy claims not to have a view about whether Senate filibusters are constitutional. Such a ruling could be upheld by only 51 votes, rather than the 60 required to halt a filibuster. Ideally, he'd be able to claim that the Democrats' filibusters are unprecedented. However, 60 votes are required to end a filibuster. The judicial filibuster is indeed an obstruction of last resort. In addition, if the judicial filibuster were ended by a vote of the Senate, it would vanish entirely. Far too often, prolonged filibusters by those who disagree doom an idea that the vast majority supports. Yes, it is true that a filibuster, which only requires 40 votes to sustain, is possible. The procedural mechanism of the filibuster is designed for extraordinary circumstances. Nor is the Republicans' Senate majority great enough to prevent the Democrats defeating a nominee by means of a procedural filibuster. The 1980s saw the filibuster threat used about 90 times, including in 1989 to block a capital-gains tax cut. The current abuse of the filibuster requires a strong response, and we need positive action from the president. In that event, breaking the filibuster would require 67 votes, a full 8 more than had been secured on Friday. Senate Democrats have vowed to shut down the Senate if Republicans end judicial filibusters. She got 65 votes, five more than she needed to actually break the filibuster. The filibuster rule has of course been the subject of occasional but profoundly important alteration. With a tie in the Senate, filibusters can go on indefinitely, and the vice president will become the swing vote on key bills. Synonyms delaying tactics, stonewalling, procrastination, obstruction, delaying, blocking, hold-up 2historical A person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign country. verbˈfiləˌbəstərˈfɪləˌbəstər [no object]often as noun filibustering 1Act in an obstructive manner in a legislature, especially by speaking at inordinate length. a single obstinate senator could hold up legislation endlessly by filibustering Example sentencesExamples The president is basically banging on the Democrats and saying they were leading this filibuster of the Patriot Act, and it's true that mostly it was Democrats filibustering. The Republicans were also filibustering against President Clinton's nominees, were they not? I also forgot to say that if I was filibustering, I might very well try to get my hands on the screenplay of the All-American Frank Capra political classic: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. If they go back to filibustering, the constitutional option's still on the table, and the trigger will be pulled. In this branch of Congress, such an approach allows filibustering to occur - when a bill is talked out of the time allocated to it. You don't need editorializing, grandstanding, or filibustering to get meaningful answers. That's been a conservative argument since 2003, when the Republicans gained the majority and the Democrats began filibustering. In the legislative session that ended in June, a lawmaker filibustered and killed a measure that would have placed a cap on the law. It was of course a ploy to slow things down and to ensure that as each plane lands on Ulsan they're hoping for more votes to arrive, so they're filibustering, slowing things down, delaying, wasting time. Hatch returns to the 1995 status quo and the Democrats agree to stop filibustering. Have you been filibustering? Senate Republicans have been filibustering for the last three months to block consideration of a Democratic version of the homeland security legislation, which retained some union and civil service protection. The Democrats were filibustering, and the Republicans needed a 60-vote supermajority to end the filibuster and bring the proposal to the floor for a vote. There are some very key bills to get to tonight, and I would hate to think the two main parties were filibustering in an attempt to avoid getting to them. We were not the ones - we were not the ones filibustering, in other words. Democrats say that nothing has changed, that they will continue filibustering to block judicial nominees whose politics are out of their ‘mainstream.’ The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering. 1.1with object Obstruct (a measure) by filibustering. Example sentencesExamples And now there are senators who are filibustering The Patriot Act. Senate Democrats filibustered his nomination to the appeals court, and he accepted a recess appointment by Bush. First, if the Senate Democrats have the will to continue filibustering Bush's conservative nominees, a 15-year term limit is not likely to break that will. Democrats are currently filibustering two of President Bush's hard right conservative judicial nominees. The National Party then started to filibuster the bill. There is, of course, nothing unconstitutional about filibustering a judicial nomination. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is among lawmakers who have promised to filibuster legislation allowing drilling in the refuge. Aside from filibustering the GOP's energy plan and blocking a handful of exceptionally reactionary judicial nominees, there are few success stories to which Democratic leaders can point. Why do a few senators filibuster the nominee? And with regard to what Ed said about the bill on the floor, actually there's a bipartisan majority in favor of the Democratic position, and now the Republicans seem to be filibustering the bill. But Ellis promised to filibuster the bill without his amendment. We had reached a point where the Democrats were filibustering judicial nominees relatively routinely. ‘I think this is another way of filibustering the impeachment process,’ he said, adding that the opposition will take the case to the streets should the process break down. The Senate Democrats successfully filibustered the Federal medical malpractice awards act. A handful of senators announced they would filibuster any energy legislation that opened up the area to drilling. Which is exactly what Paul Martin has been doing by canceling Opposition days and filibustering his own budget. This parliamentary session had to go into overtime to get anything accomplished after months of filibustering their budget. Not all of the judges being filibustered, for instance, are equally extreme in their views. The Democrats likely would retaliate by filibustering all Republican bills. Synonyms waste time, stall, play for time, stonewall, procrastinate, buy time, employ delaying tactics Origin Late 18th century: from French flibustier, first applied to pirates who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies. In the mid 19th century (via Spanish filibustero), the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states, whence filibuster (sense 2 of the noun). The verb was used to describe tactics intended to sabotage US congressional proceedings, whence filibuster (sense 1 of the noun).
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