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used by the Senate when opponents of a piece of legislation talk it to death (Government in America, Pearson)
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Filibusters are LESS likely to occur in the House of Representatives THAN the Senate, for two reasons: firstly, the number of people in the 'House' is 435 and in the Senate there are 100 - the simple fact that more voters makes it less likely for a Filibuster to occur, and secondly, there are and ODD number of Voting members in the 'House' as opposed to an EVEN number in the Senate - again, making it MORE likely for a Filibuster to occur in the Senate.
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It's called a filibuster. filibuster.
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A filibuster
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The usual purpose of a filibuster is to delay legislative action.
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Congress tried to filibuster the bill before it became a law.
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The Stackhouse Filibuster was created on 2001-03-14.
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The term is filibuster.
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the first filibuster to enter tejas is philp nolan
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Filibuster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
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I believe the first filibuster to arrive in Texas was Moses Austin.
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No. The filibuster is a procedure used in the Senate. The Speaker of the House is the leader of the House of Representatives.
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The cause is the Compromise of 1850, and the effect is the Southern filibuster ventures.
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The filibuster only exists in the senate. There is no such thing in the House of Representatives.
However, in the senate 60 signatures are required to reach cloture on an issue and stop a filibuster
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it can only take place in the senate since theirs a small amount of senates
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A filibuster is someone who wages an unofficial war on a country. Augustus Magee tried to free Mexico from Spain.
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The answer is Filibuster. Filibuster also talks a bill to death, and a cloture can end that.
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Republicans do not have a majority in the Senate; however, they can stop an appointment by President Obama by filibuster.
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The answer is Filibuster. Filibuster also talks a bill to death, and a cloture can end that.
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A filibuster is a speech made in Congress to deliberately stall and sabotage the proceedings. The longest filibuster was a speech that lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes.
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It would be Three-fifths of the Senate, or 60 members who vote against it.
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Senators are allowed to speak for or against a bill and a vote can not be taken until the everyone has had a reasonable opportunity to speak. However, there is a tactic known as the filibuster in which a senator or a group of Senators speak for no purpose except to delay a vote on the bill. The Senate can vote to end debate but this action currently required a 60% majority , so unless 60% of the senators want to end debate and get a vote, the debate can go on until the bill is withdrawn without a vote and the bill dies .
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The only way is to cloture the filibuster. To do so, at least 3/5 (60 senators) of the Senate must agree.
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A filibuster is a debate that takes place within a governing group in which voting is delayed or prevented by one or more members of the group. To end a filibuster the Senate must conduct a vote on the matter. If there is three fifths of the members in favor of ending the filibuster this is carried out.
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