He chided the senators about their reluctance to debate bills introduced by himself, as noted in the fragments of a surviving speech:

While he was president in the United States Senate, a small number of anti-war senators kept it deadlocked by refusing to end debate.

During that debate Marshall threatened to expel certain senators from the chamber for their raucous behavior, but did not carry through on the threat.

All senators had to speak before a vote could be held, and since all meetings had to end by nightfall, a senator could talk a proposal to death ( a filibuster or diem consumere ) if they could keep the debate going until nightfall.

Acts such as applause, booing, or heckling often played a major role in a debate, and, in part because all senators had an absolute right to free speech, any senator could respond at any point if he was attacked personally.

Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless " three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn " ( usually 60 out of 100 senators ) brings debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

But while the Thucydides ' Athenians debate the Corcyreans ' proposal in pragmatic terms, Livy's senators decide to reject the Campanian alliance based on moral arguments.

Although Andrews was a member of the Liberal Party, members and senators were allowed a conscience vote on the issue, and each side of the debate was supported by members and senators from all political parties.

They also decided to have an elected lower house, the House of Commons, and an appointed upper house, the Senate, although there was considerable debate about how many senators each province would have.

A Globe and Mail article has suggested Harper may invoke Section 26 of the Constitution, as his predecessor Brian Mulroney did during the GST debate, to have an extra eight senators appointed, for a total of 113, thus granting Tories an absolute majority in the Red Chamber.

It is said that the public was always allowed to stroll into the Curia Hostilia to listen to the senators debate.

On May 23, 2005, Collins was one of fourteen senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the judicial filibuster, thus allowing the Republican leadership to end debate without having to exercise the so-called " nuclear option ".

Nicknamed the " Dean of Moderators " by CNN's Bernard Shaw, Lehrer has moderated eleven presidential candidate debates, with the most recent being the presidential debate between senators Barack Obama and John McCain on September 26, 2008.

The Apology Bill of ' 93 was passed with only one hour of debate on the Senate floor with only five senators participating, three opposed ( Slade Gorton, Hank Brown, John C. Danforth ) and two in favor ( Akaka and Inouye ).

Fifty-five senators voted to end debate on his nomination and allow a final confirmation vote, and forty-four senators voted not to end debate.

Though it was welcome in the populous eastern provinces, the NEP was unpopular in the western regionespecially oil-rich Albertawhere populists felt the western provinces had been excluded from debate on the energy program, and looked towards the United States with the belief that, had Canada's Senate been more like its American counterpart, senators from the four western provinces could have forced the Senate to drop the program, or at least allow for significant amendments to it.

During the debate over the ultimately failed Charlottetown Accord, citizens ' forums put Senate reform near the top of their lists of desired changes, leading then Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark to include within his original constitutional reform package a Senate with six senators for each province and one from each territory, and a proportional representation ( PR ) system to elect them.

Because debate time is unlimited, senators may simply speak endlessly on the Senate floor to prevent a vote from taking place ; this tactic is known as a filibuster.

This practice enables the Senate to engage in debate and conduct less controversial business without requiring the physical presence of fifty-one senators in the chamber.

The acceptance of modernist design into everyday life was the subject of publicity campaigns, well-attended public exhibitions like the Weissenhof Estate, films, and sometimes fierce public debate.

There are two assumptions relating to California chaparral fire regimes that appear to have caused considerable debate, and sometimes confusion and controversy, within the fields of wildfire ecology and land management.

Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, sometimes split along party political lines, especially in the United States.

It is a matter of debate, even sometimes within a single congregation, often between revivalist and traditionalist movements.

An increasingly assertive Parliament frequently challenged President Wahid's policies and prerogatives, contributing to a lively and sometimes rancorous national political debate.

In debate or rhetoric, a slippery slope ( also known as thin end of the wedge-or sometimes " edge " in US English-or the camel's nose ) is a classic form of argument, arguably an informal fallacy.

Due to the often emotional nature of advocacy debate and its sometimes narrow appeal to the wider user population, forums for discussion of advocacy are often separate from those for general discussion.

While the applicability of the quasispecies model to real organisms is still a matter of debate in the scientific community, some researchers believe that it accurately represents the evolution of high-mutation-rate viruses such as HIV and sometimes single genes or molecules within the genomes of other organisms.

It is also sometimes held that when a semantic dispute arises, the focus of the debate should switch from the original thesis to the meaning of the terms of which there are different definitions ( understandings, concepts, etc.

The narrators of many of her poems speak of infatuations and love ( sometimes requited, sometimes not ) for various females, but descriptions of physical acts between women are few and subject to debate.

While he presided in the Senate, emotions sometimes ran high, including during a debate on the Mexican border crisis in 1916.

This clause, sometimes referred to as the Guarantee Clause, has historically been a part of the debate about the rights of citizens vis-a-vis state governments.

Once a year, sometimes more often if needed, the registered voters of the town meet in open session to elect officers, debate local issues, and pass laws for operating the government.

While the social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do, research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in males and females influence the development of gender in humans ; both inform debate about how far biological differences influence the formation of gender identity.

Since classical times a question has remained constant in philosophical debate ( which is sometimes seen as a conflict between movements called Platonism and Aristotelianism ) concerning the role of reason in confirming truth.

Although there is this special history of debate concerning reason and faith in the Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions, the pursuit of reason is sometimes argued to be compatible with the other practice of other religions of a different nature, such as Hinduism, because they do not define their tenets in such an absolute way.

Today, it is sometimes further reported that Huxley applied the example in a now-legendary debate over Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species with the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, held at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford on June 30, 1860.

This led to widespread and sometimes bitter debate on what constituted the " unit of selection ".

Scientists sometimes debate whether specific activities release measurable levels of endorphins.

As more material became available to scholars, including the diaries of contemporaries and hundreds of affectionate and sometimes erotic letters written by James to younger men, the picture of neurotic celibacy gave way to a portrait of a closeted homosexual, although as author Terry Eagleton has stated, "... gay critics debate exactly how repressed his ( probable ) homosexuality was ..."

Strongly matrilocal societies sometimes are referred to as matrifocal, and there is some debate concerning the terminological delineation between matrifocality and matriarchy.

While government policy and public debate in France in recent years has returned to a valorization of regional differences and a call for decentralization of certain aspects of the public sphere ( sometimes with ethnic, racial or reactionary overtones ), the history of regional displacement and the nature of the modern urban environment and of mass media and culture have made the preservation of a regional " sense of place or culture " in today's France extremely difficult.

There is considerable controversy over Hirsch's legacy ; this is a matter of debate between three parties: Haredi ( sometimes called Ultra-Orthodox ), Modern Orthodox, and Hirsch's descendants.

Although Chinese nationalists have agreed on the desirability of a centralized Chinese state, almost every other question has been the subject of intense and sometimes bitter debate.