Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: Role of the filibuster

  Over the years some of you have inquired about the use of the filibuster in the halls of the U.S. Senate. The word itself is not something that the average citizen is familiar with. A filibuster is simply a fancy word for talking a piece of legislation to death. It is a dilatory tactic that senators use to delay a vote on a bill and hopefully tire out the proponents of a prospective law.