Discussions of the points in the alleged " compromise " only concerned convincing key Democrats not to acquiesce in a filibuster.

The House was supposed to break for the summer Thursday June 23, but remained open in an extended session due to the filibuster.

A notable filibuster took place in the Northern Ireland House of Commons in 1936 when Tommy Henderson ( Independent Unionist MP for Shankill ) spoke for nine and a half hours ( ending just before 4 am ) on the Appropriation Bill.

In the United States House of Representatives, the filibuster ( the right to unlimited debate ) was used until 1842, when a permanent rule limiting the duration of debate was created.

In September 2009, Lincoln pledged to filibuster any legislation containing a Public health insurance option, such as the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the House of Representatives ' proposed health care reform bill.

During a thirty-six day filibuster on the question of the government's naval bill, Sproule lost his patience after weeks of 24 hour sessions, and became the first Speaker ever to " name " a member of the House for disorderly conduct.

Price Daniel, Lyndon Johnson, Spessard Holland and Senate Majority Leader Robert Taft worked tirelessly to overcome the 27-day filibuster of the bill, with it passing the Senate 56-35 votes, and approved by the House of Representatives on May 13.

He sat in the Upper House as a Liberal and served in various positions including Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate and led the Liberals ' filibuster against the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax forcing Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to use an obscure section of the Constitution to appoint extra Senators and ensure passage of the measure.

In 1921 Leonidas C. Dyer sponsored an anti-lynching bill ; it was passed in January 1922 in the United States House of Representatives, but a Senate filibuster by Southern white Democrats defeated it in December 1922.

Wilson and the bills ' supporters requested that Marshall put a gag-order in place to cut off debate, but he refused on ethical grounds, allowing a number of bills to be defeated in hopes that opposition would eventually end their filibuster.

In light of a Cuban uprising, President James K. Polk refused solicitations from filibuster backer John L. O ' Sullivan and stated his belief that any acquisition of the island must be an " amicable purchase.

At that time, Kagan was kept off the circuit court because Republicans — the majority party in the Senate — refused to give her a hearing or a vote, though she was not subjected to the filibuster later used by Democrats to block Estrada's nomination .< ref >

In 1996, bipartisan legislation for voluntary spending limits which rewards those who bare soft money is killed by a Republican filibuster.

The filibuster lasted for 12 hours and 42 minutes ( starting at 13: 18, and speaking until 2: 00 in the morning ), thus breaking the previous record held by his party-colleague Madeleine Petrovic ( 10 hours and 35 minutes on March 11 in 1993 ), after which the standing orders had been changed, so speaking time was limited to 20 minutes.

The filibuster is a powerful parliamentary device in the United States Senate, which in recent years has meant that most major legislation ( apart from budgets and confirmations ) requires a 60 % majority to head off a filibuster.

An example of filibuster in the Legislative Council after the Handover was the second reading of the Provision of Municipal Services ( Reorganization ) Bill 1999, which was to dissolve the partially democratically elected Urban Council and Regional Council.

It was the third time the English filibuster roamed about the area accomplishing large commercial operations among which the slave trade was significant.

On August 1, 2011, Petri voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011 which raised the nation's debt limit and included the creation of the " super committee " that was empowered to produce legislation that would be immune from amendments or filibuster.

With only twelve days before the ratification deadline for the Accord, Harper began a filibuster which prevented the assembly from ratifying the Accord.

In 1953, Morse conducted a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest one-person filibuster in U. S. Senate history.

In 1955, the Tories, through a determined filibuster, were able to defeat amendments to the Defence Procurement Act, which would have made temporary, extraordinary powers granted to the government permanent.

Apart from these constitutional requirements, a Senate rule requires a supermajority of three fifths to move to a vote through a cloture motion, which closes debate on a bill or nomination, thus ending a filibuster by a minority of members.

These decisions were announced two days after the Senate ended a filibuster and passed the bill which would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation in public accommodations.

In 1913 he staged a filibuster against the government's Mental Deficiency Bill, which he saw as authoritarian and unjust.

* — which lists the rules lawyer's two weapons as “ an onslaught of evidence, textual readings, precedent, and reasoning ” and the “ dreaded filibuster ”.

The nuclear option is not to be confused with reconciliation, which allows issues related to the annual budget to be decided by a majority vote without the possibility of filibuster.

A number of Democratic senators attempted a filibuster ; however, the entire Gang of 14 voted for cloture, which passed by 72 to 24 ( with 60 " aye " votes needed to end the filibuster ).

" Freebooter " is the more familiar term in British English, in which " filibuster " normally only refers to the legislative tactic.

When a group of senators led by Walter Mondale of Minnesota set out to change the filibuster rule, which had been used to block civil rights legislation, they asked Pearson to join them.

A similar story structure was used in Gillo Pontecorvo's non-Western Burn !, with Marlon Brando playing William Walker ( filibuster ), which takes place on a fictional Portuguese island colony in the Caribbean in the 19th century.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

After Kennedy's death, Johnson took the initiative in finishing what Kennedy started and broke a filibuster by Southern Democrats in March 1964 ; as a result, this pushed the bill for passage in the Senate.

The dispute, however, did not end, as some Democrats threatened to filibuster in the Senate.

He also became well known as one of the five Republican Senators who joined Democrats in a filibuster of the USA PATRIOT Act renewal conference report.

Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 83-day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. ( D-TN ), J. William Fulbright ( D-AR ), and Robert Byrd ( D-WV ), who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight.

On May 23, 2005, Pryor was one of the 14 senators who forged a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the judicial filibuster.

) Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance.

On May 23, 2005, Warner was one of 14 centrist senators ( Gang of 14 ) to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' proposed use of the judicial filibuster, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called nuclear option.

Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance ", and three Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor ) would receive a vote by the full Senate.

On May 23, 2005, Chafee was one of 14 bipartisan senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the judicial filibuster, forestalling the Republican leadership's implementation of the so-called " nuclear option ".

Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance ", and three of the most conservative Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor ) would receive a vote by the full Senate.

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 ".

The Gang-brokered compromise precluded further filibusters and the implementation of the nuclear option for the remainder of the 109th Congress ; under its terms, the Democrats retained the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee in an " extraordinary circumstance ," and nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor ) received a simple majority vote by the full Senate.

In any case, whether by an informal deal or simply reassurances already in line with Hayes's announced plans, talks with Southern Democrats satisfied the worries of many and so prevented a Congressional filibuster that had threatened to extend resolution of the election dispute beyond Inauguration Day 1877.

Some historians argue that the assurances offered to some Southern Democrats to prevent a filibuster were not a " compromise " but a foregone conclusion.

The bill was defeated by filibuster in the Senate by Southern Democrats.

On May 23, 2005, Salazar was among the Gang of 14 moderate senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the filibuster against judicial appointments, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called " nuclear option ".

Under the agreement, the Democrats would retain the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an " extraordinary circumstance ", and the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor ) would receive a vote by the full Senate.

During the administration of President George W. Bush, Coburn spoke out against the threat by some Democrats to filibuster nominations to judicial and Executive Branch positions.

With no other way to block confirmation, the Senate Democrats started to filibuster judicial nominees.

Despite these agreements, however, some observers noted that the chances were still high that the Democrats would filibuster any of the ten originally filibustered nominees if he or she were later nominated to the Supreme Court, especially Owen, Pryor or Brown.

During the summer of 2005, it was assumed that the Democrats would filibuster any Supreme Court nominee who would change the ideological composition of the court.

As the new Senate majority, the Democrats easily blocked several conservative appellate judicial nominees without resorting to the filibuster.