Has there been a single real filibuster since Bush* came to power?

[Bandit]

I know there has been talk and Feingold tried to establish one once but the "Democrats" wouldn't participate. If there has not been any how can any Democrats say they made real efforts to stop anything that has been going on?

[Dinger]

1. Yeah, Remember The "Gang Of 14"? Well, They Sucked.

That was the gift that keeps on giving . . . . to bu$hCo. They ALL need to go.

[blm]

2. One successful in 2002 led by Kerry against ANWR drilling

There was Alito filbuster by Kennedy and Kerry that came close. And Patriot Act filibuster by Feingold.

Big difference being the Dems controlled the senate for a brief time. Unfortunately, 9-11 happened and media went all out into protect Bush mode for the next 4 years.

http://www.alaskalegislature.com/stories/041802/anwr.shtml

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The House approved an energy package last year that includes refuge drilling.

During two days of sometimes emotional debate, drilling supporters assailed "radical" environmentalists who have opposed drilling and talked as much about the recent turmoil in the Middle East and Iraq's suspension of oil shipments as about the refuge itself.

"There's an inferno in the Mideast and we're importing more than 50 percent of our oil," said Murkowski, arguing that extracting the oil in ANWR is a matter of national security because it will cut the need for imports.

Drilling opponents scoffed at that argument.

"I've learned a few lessons about national security as a soldier and a senator, but the mathematics I learned in elementary school prove that Arctic drilling won't make a difference for national security," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a decorated Vietnam veteran.

Kerry, who has led the filibuster against refuge drilling, said the United States has 3 percent of the world's oil and uses 25 percent of the world's supply. "The solution is not in the Arctic," he said.

If energy security was the issue, he said, Republicans should have supported his proposal, which was rejected earlier, to require increased automobile fuel efficiency.

The drilling issue has attracted intense lobbying by environmentalists who have made it their No. 1 issue. Stung last summer when the Republican-controlled House passed an energy bill that would open the refuge to oil development, they vowed to press the issue in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

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[endarkenment]

3. Wasn't Bolten filibustered into a recess appointment?

[Bandit]

4. No there was a threat of a filibuster so it never came to a vote

I guesss in a way they are almost the same thing. :shrug:

[Minnesota Libra]

5. There have been at least one filibuster and I think more..........

....that made its way into the media. If I'm not mistaken one filibuster was over an issue on the budget.

[bryant69]

6. I don't know if they actually filibuster anymore

I think they make clear that they will filibuster, and the head of the senate, not wanting the embarrassment, doesn't bring the issue to the floor, until he has enough votes to close the filibuster.

Bryant
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