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Filibuster the bill, also known as "killing" or "talking (a bill) to death."
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What tactic talking to a bill to death can be used only in the Senate to stop a bill?
A filabuster
Why do senatorsuse filibusters?
To stop legislation from being passed - there's a limit to how long Congress can debate over a Bill. Talking it to death is a good tactic if the majority of the Senate will support the bill, but there is enough opposition to launch a successful filibuster. The reason this never really happens in the House of Representatives is because the House has a speaker. The threat of a filibuster is a far more common tactic than the real thing.
Can the Senate Majority Leader stop amendments to a bill?
No, but it can be sent to committee for review and tabled, passed, or stopped.
Was the SOPA law passed?
No, the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill has not been passed yet. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to bring the bill up for vote in the Senate on January 24, 2012.
How can members of the senate stop a bill?
From wikipedia: "Sections 2 and 3 of Rule VII (Morning Business) of the Standing Rules of the Senate outline the procedure for bringing motions to the floor of the Senate. Under these rules, "no motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill...shall be entertained...unless by unanimous consent". " Therefore a senator can place a hold on the debate of a bill which means the bill cannot be voted on until after a debate. In order to stop a filibuster or a hold the senate needs 16 senators to request "cloture" which requires a positive vote from 3/5ths of the senators. Unfortunately, a cloture vote takes two business days to occur.
How does congress stop legislation?
By voting a bill down, using a filibuster (Senate Only), or killed by committee.
Why do senators use a filibuster?
Prevent of Senate from voting on a bill
What happens to a bill that is voted down by the senate?
For a bill to become law it must be passed by both houses of Congress, so when the Senate passes a bill, the same bill must also go to the House of Representatives, or if the House has passed a similar bill, the two bills must be reconciled by a joint committee to produce a single bill that both houses can pass. Then when both houses have passed the same bill, the bill goes to the President for his signature. The President may or may not sign the bill, and if he doesn't, Congress can over-ride the veto if they have enough votes. Otherwise the bill dies.
What happens to a bill that voted down by the senate?
Nothing. Bills which fail simply stop. The content of a failed bill may be re-introduced at a later date in a different bill, but once a specific bill has been voted down, it cannot then be re-introduced later.
How can Republicans stop the President's appointment on the Senate floor?
Republicans do not have a majority in the Senate; however, they can stop an appointment by President Obama by filibuster.
Why couldn't the democrats get bills passed when they had control of the house and senate under Obama?
Unfortunately, the rules of the senate have changed over the past few years, such that the minority party (in this case the Republicans) can stop any piece of legislation or any proposal from getting an up-or-down vote by threatening a filibuster. Where years ago, filibusters were real (in other words, a senator had to remain on the floor of the senate for hours and hours, preventing a piece of legislation from being voted on), today, the rules only require a verbal agreement to filibuster; Republicans united to use this tactic and they used it a record number of times. Even though they still held a majority, the Democrats needed 60 votes to stop a filibuster, and they did not have that many; in past years, some Republican senators would cross the aisle and work together with Democrats, but now, the Republicans were united in opposing nearly every bill that the president wanted passed. Thus, the senate was unable to get anything done.
How can a senate stop a filibuster?
With 61 votes
