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.
如果他們?nèi)巳硕歼x擇支持國(guó)會(huì)拖延方案，那么你可以向美國(guó)人民展示這些阻礙者到底是什么人。
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.
的確，慣例已被約定促成：參議院第22條規(guī)則規(guī)定，100位參議員中至少有60位投反對(duì)票才能推翻一項(xiàng)阻撓議事。
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.
不過(guò)民主黨需要60票來(lái)壓倒阻撓議案。即將到來(lái)的大選年對(duì)共和黨人來(lái)說(shuō)是額外的獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)，意味著他們可以用聽(tīng)證會(huì)的方式給政客打分。

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.

擅自入侵與本國(guó)政府和平相處的國(guó)家的冒險(xiǎn)家；尤指19世紀(jì)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)對(duì)拉丁美洲國(guó)家進(jìn)行軍事遠(yuǎn)征的美國(guó)冒險(xiǎn)家；海盜；強(qiáng)盜