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Normally senators are assigned to committees by unanimous consent, but that motion can be filibustered.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Three times, the women in the Senate and three Republican male colleagues successfully filibustered.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion.

From Salon • May 8, 2023

With the Civil Rights Act being filibustered in the Senate, King arrived in St. Augustine in mid-May, in part to highlight the persistence and brutality of racial injustice.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022

Indemnity, Stevens's bill of passes House, 198; combined with habeas corpus bill, 199; debated, filibustered against, and passed, 200-203.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace