filibuster

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If all of them choose to support a filibuster, then you take it to the American people and show the obstructionists for what they are.
如果他们人人都选择支持国会拖延方案，那么你可以向美国人民展示这些阻碍者到底是什么人。
Indeed, the practice has been formalised: Senate rule number 22 states that a filibuster can be overridden only by a vote of 60 of the 100 senators.
的确，惯例已被约定促成：参议院第22条规则规定，100位参议员中至少有60位投反对票才能推翻一项阻挠议事。
But they would need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, and an election year gives the Republicans an extra incentive to use the hearings to score political points.
不过民主党需要60票来压倒阻挠议案。即将到来的大选年对共和党人来说是额外的奖励，意味着他们可以用听证会的方式给政客打分。

In 2005,then-minority Senate Democrats mounted an unsuccessful effort to filibuster the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated by former-President George W.Bush.
Joining the filibuster at the time was then-Senator Barack Obama.
Representative Candace Miller was among a succession of Republicans conducting the equivalent of a filibuster Tuesday in the House, assailing the health care proposal and the president's handling of the economy.

There's one group of fiscal conservatives nearly enough to sustain a filibuster of the spending bill.
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A filibuster is a long slow speech made to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed.
If a politician filibusters, he or she makes a long slow speech in order to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed.