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Prevent of Senate from voting on a bill

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A Senator would choose filibustering to block a bill if he or she was certain that it would pass if it ever went to a full vote. If the filibuster is successful, the session of Congress ends and the bill is dead at least until the next session of Congress when it must be reintroduced. If the majority party of the Senate swings from one party to the other, then it is likely that even when reintroduced in the new session, the bill will now be outvoted. If the majority party does not swing to the other side, then the filibuster just serves as a delaying tactic.

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16y ago
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A Senator might choose a filibuster for a couple reasons. One is if he/she knows the bill will be passed if it comes up for a vote, that Senator can prevent it from coming up for that vote by talking about it non-stop. The other reason would be if the Senator knew it was the right thing to do to pass the bill, but for political or other reasons did not want it to pass, he/she could prevent it from coming up for a vote by talking non-stop. Thus the Senator either prevents a bill he/she does not like from passing or avoids having to vote in favor of an unpopular bill or against a popular bill.

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15y ago
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A Filibuster is to delay or processed an assembly.

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17y ago
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The minority party sometimes views the filibuster option as their only hope of preventing a bill from passage in the Senate.

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14y ago
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to attempt to block passing a bill

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