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Filibuster
Filibuster Fil"i*bus`ter, n. [Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See Freebooter.] A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
Filibuster
Filibuster Fil"i*bus*ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fillibustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Filibustering.] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. --Bartlett. 2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] --Bartlett.

Meaning of Filibustered from wikipedia

- Another example of filibuster in Canada federally came in early 2014 when NDP MP and Deputy Leader David Christopherson filibustered the government's bill...
- January 25, 2021, McConnell abandoned his threat of a filibuster. After Senate Republicans filibustered the motion to proceed to the Freedom to Vote Act along...
- A filibuster (from the Spanish filibustero), also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country...
- been described as racist by the newspaper because the bill Thurmond filibustered against protected the right of African Americans to vote. In his 2012...
- The Filibuster War, otherwise referred to as the Walker affair, or The National Campaign of 1856 and 1857 in Costa Rica, was a military conflict between...
- providing for congressional disapproval. Therefore, these measures cannot be filibustered and are not subjected to the supermajority cloture threshold. Although...
- business may continue on other topics while one item is being filibustered. Since filibusters no longer require the minority to actually hold the floor and...
- tie-breaking vote. If the vice president is not present, the motion fails. Filibustered bills require a three-fifths majority to overcome the cloture vote (which...
- initiatives during the Obama administration, making frequent use of the filibuster, and blocked many of President Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme...
- threatened another filibuster, this one opposing any legislative proposals to expand federal gun control measures. The filibuster was attempted on April...