Related Words:
- filibuster
collapse - a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
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