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Intro -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate( -- Summary -- The Right to Debate -- The Right to Recognition -- The Right to Speak at Length and the Two-Speech Rule -- The Motion to Table -- The Conduct of Filibusters -- Germaneness of Debate -- Yielding the Floor and Yielding for Questions -- Quorums and Quorum Calls -- Roll Call Voting -- Scheduling Filibusters -- Invoking Cloture -- Matters on Which Cloture May be Invoked -- Timing of Cloture Motions -- Effects of Invoking Cloture -- Time for Consideration and Debate -- Offering Amendments and Motions -- Germane Amendments Only -- Amendments Submitted in Writing -- Multiple Amendments -- Dilatory Amendments and Motions -- Reading and Division of Amendments -- The Authority of the Presiding Officer -- Business on the Senate Floor -- The Impact of Filibusters -- Impact on the Time for Consideration -- The Prospect of a Filibuster -- Holds -- Linkage and Leverage -- Consensus -- Key Policy Staff -- End Notes -- Cloture Attempts on Nominations( -- Summary -- Cloture, Filibusters, and How They Differ -- Frequency of Cloture Attempts on Nominations -- Historical Development of Cloture Attempts on Nominations -- Positions in Relation to Which Cloture Was Sought -- End Notes -- Cloture: Its Effect on Senate Proceedings( -- 30-Hour Time Cap -- One-Hour of Debate Per Senator -- Pre-Filing of Amendments -- Role of the Presiding Officer -- No Nongermane Amendments -- Points of Order and Appeals Not Debatable -- The Unfinished Business -- "Holds" in the Senate( -- Summary -- Background -- Potency of Holds -- Types of Holds -- Calls for Change -- Senate Policy on "Holds": Action in the 110th Congress( -- Summary -- Introduction -- Limits on Secret Holds: The New Policy -- Section 512: Selected Issues -- Retroactive Application

Filibusters are often covered by the news media, but what is their purpose? How long can they last, and what are the rules that must be followed during a filibuster? Readers discover the answers to these and other common questions about this unique part of American politics as they explore some of the most famous filibusters in U.S. history, including recent filibusters by Wendy Davis and Nancy Pelosi. Sidebars encourage readers to become more active citizens, and discussion questions allow young people to examine their own opinions about the American political process.

They did not seem to be in a position to help the other body. Yet, on October 10, 2002, members of the House Judiciary Committee listened to witnesses discuss how the Senate could be more efficient. In 2003, Senate committees heard similar testimony. During the hearings, eminent law professors suggested that the practice of allowing filibusters on judicial nominees could not be imposed by previous Senates on the current one. It, therefore, would be within the power of the 51 Republican Senators to uphold a point of order against the filibuster and proceed to govern by majority rule (Kmiec 2003). In Washington, this course of action is called the "nuclear option." Although the informal use of the nuclear option has several variations, each variation has a common underlying feature that can be formally defined. The nuclear option is a dramatic refusal to recognize delaying tactics permitted under the rules that facilitates the institutionalization of majoritarian procedures in a legislative body. Occurring in legislatures such as the 1881 British House of Commons, the use of the nuclear option can be a watershed event wherever the majority lacks an unassailable way to end debate.

Cover -- Defending the Filibuster -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ★ Foreword -- ★ Preface -- 1. Soul of the Senate -- 2. Filibuster, Cloture, and Unfettered Amendment -- 3. History of the Filibuster -- 4. Polarized Politics and the Use and Abuse of the Filibuster -- 5. Criticisms of the Filibuster -- 6. The Dangers of Overzealous Reform -- 7. Related Tactics: Holds -- 8. Related Tactics: Filling the Amendment Tree -- 9. Circumventing the Filibuster: Reconciliation -- 10. Reforming the Filibuster: The Constitutional Option -- 11. Reforming the Filibuster: The Nuclear Option -- 12. Bring in the Cots -- 13. Defending the Filibuster -- Epilogue -- ★ Appendixes -- ★ Notes -- ★ Selected Bibliography -- ★ Index

An account of his first trip in the Circassia and his travels through the Southern states of America.--Dict. nat. biog., vol. XLII. ; "Reprinted from ʻBlackwood's magazine' with corrections and additions." ; Mode of access: Internet.