Definition of "filibustered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster. (verb)

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• "The only reason Alito would be filibustered is because that would be the oppositions only way to keep him from comming to an up or down vote."
• "Our Senate has more than 100 bills that the House has passed sitting in committees or "filibustered"."
• "I'll never forget walking through the press corps in the East Room after Obama's first press and hearing one of the more famous reporters bitching to other reporters that Obama "filibustered" his answers."