The end result, however, was to make filibustering easier. It created a distinction from past "talking" filibusters - a showy, but usually futile, parliamentary tactic not unfamiliar to many ...
PROVIDENCE – Tensions had never been higher at the Rhode Island State House. As temperatures rose that June, so did tempers in the state Senate. Fistfights broke out. Then a riot. There was even ...
time-draining filibusters that happen in our unicameral on a consistent basis every time an important bill is brought up for discussion. Discussion is always better than filibustering. Sen.
Cloture was instituted in 1917 at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson, who became frustrated when filibusters blocked his attempts to get the United States involved in World War I. Cloture ...