1. 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。
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2. Focus now shifts to the Senate, where questions linger about whether Democrats have nailed down enough support from the handful of Republicans needed to overcome a likely filibuster.
3. He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.
他已是个回避问题的老手:其回应批评的主要方法是一威胁、二阻挠、三拖延。
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4. Of course, these pages were less eager to abolish the filibuster when the idea was floated by the Republicans in 2005, but put that aside.
当然,当共和党在2005年首次提出那问题的时候,论战并不急于废除冗长的政治演说陋习,不过这是后话。
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5. The Democrats lack the 60 votes that would enable them to overcome any threat of a Republican filibuster in the 100-member Senate as they did in the House.
6. The Senate, which remained in session over the weekend because of the crisis, voted on a mainly procedural issue yesterday to end a Republican filibuster on the subject.
7. The Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has privately urged the conservatives not to filibuster, without success, say three people familiar with the talks.
8. The Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has privately urged the conservatives not to filibuster, without success, say three people familiar with the talks.