filibusters

from firearms to filibusters, here are seven of the greatest, strangest and most dramatic moments in congressional history

从动用手枪到采取阻挠议事的行为，下面是国会历史上7次最“伟大”、最奇怪和最富有戏剧性的场面。

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By a vote of 52 to 48, the Senate ended the use of so-called filibusters against presidential nominees, overturning traditions in the chamber that allowed the minority party to block White House nominees.

参议院以52票对48票的结果，结束了所谓的使用借助冗长发言等方式阻碍议事程序规则（filibuster）反对总统提名的做法，推翻了参议院允许少数党阻扰白宫提名的传统。

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senator george mitchell had to have twelve votes to break filibusters just in my first hundred days.

在我就任的前100天里，参议员乔治.米切尔竟不得不12次投票来终止阻挠议事。

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Yes, there were filibusters in the past-most notably by segregationists trying to block civil rights legislation.

没错, 过去也有使用阻挠立法手段的 —— 尤其是种族隔离分子阻止民权法案使用过.

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this republican leadership has waged 78 filibusters, and we still have six months to go.

这届参议院中，共和党领导人已经用了78次，而且，这届参议院还将持续6个月。

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they fell short of the 60 senate seats they had hoped for, which would have allowed them to avoid procedural blocks known as filibusters .

他们降低了曾希望的60位参议员的人数，这允许他们避免被称为阻挠议事的程序块。

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now, before this congress, the record was 57 filibusters in a two-year period of time.

现在，在议会开始前，这一记录在两年的时间内的记录是57个否决议案。

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filibusters , of course, are the age-old procedural obstacles used to slow down or stop the senate from debating and voting.

武装分子，当然是古老的程序法的障碍，可以用来减轻或停止参议院收到的争论和投票。

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This Republican leadership has waged 78 filibusters and we still have six months to go.

而这届参议院上台才一年半,共和党领导层已经应用了78次.

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american senators have resorted to filibusters now and again for 170 years (click left for table).

在170年间，美国的参议员时不时地诉诸filibuster（点击左图）。

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