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"...Bill 362 from reaching the floor. The term is "chubbing": using as much time as possible to slow a..."

"...plus ca change, plus ca meme chose. The current chubbing on the floor is the biggest single test of..."

"...various bills, many of which are threatened by the chubbing of voter ID in the House. A lot of..."

"...the House Democrats can play rough, too. The Democrats' "chubbing" – the homemade House equivalent of a Senate filibuster..."

"...course in danger. Senators watched in horror as the "chubbing" at the other end of the Capitol threatened to..."

"...plugged on, with Democrats playing the old game of chubbing...."

"...flight to Oklahoma in 2003 and orchestrated the 2009 chubbing. The group's current chair, Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, looks..."

"...is because it left in the first place. The chubbing in the House, the unfinished business caused by calling..."

"...used to keep that bill off their floor (see "Chubbing Republicans Over the Head," May 29). Hundreds of bills..."

"...a series of parliamentary challenges, concluding with several reps "chubbing" Wilson's amendment into oblivion. Chubbing is a sort of..."

"...29 on the calendar – a practice known as "chubbing" – and kept SB 29 from getting a vote...."

"...number of minor bills to death – often called "chubbing" – as the clock ticked down to midnight, thus..."

"...photo lineups. The bill was a casualty of House chubbing, but this year it is back and moving quickly..."

"...which failed to pass last session (another victim of chubbing), is part of a package of innocence-related bills introduced..."

"...blew up on the launchpad during the Democrats' famous chubbing of the voter ID bill. Since then, the market..."

"...Senate last year, but House Democrats killed it by "chubbing" the bill, a legislative delaying technique similar to filibustering...."

"...then, the Democrats were able to accomplish that through "chubbing," a filibusterlike technique that slowed down the pace of..."

"...then, the Democrats were able to accomplish that through “chubbing,” a filibuster-like technique that slowed down the pace of..."

"...such power (the measure became a casualty of House chubbing). Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said late last month that..."

"...the House. People who had never heard the word "chubbing" before were asking me for a definition, and the..."

"...She called the proposal "a casualty" of last weekend's chubbing, and added, "I certainly don't blame [fellow conferees Rep...."

"...855 passed the Senate but then died in the chubbing marathon that Democrats used to kill voter ID. Carona..."

"...• What's chubbing? Texas House Democrats talked out the session to kill..."

"...16 (omnibus clean-air bill) appear headed for death by chubbing. "We'll choke on our own incompetence," said SB 16..."

"...Amidst all the chubbing on the House floor, the state budget for the..."

"...in SB 545. Although that fell victim to House chubbing, Sills applauded their consensus view that green-collar jobs "can..."

"...Now it's the Republicans who are chubbing. Seeing that they can't possibly save their beloved voter..."

"...the House has suddenly sped up. Democrats have stopped chubbing, and are whipping through the bills quickly now. They’ve..."

"...great and overdue idea – endangered by the Democrats' chubbing in the House, and tried to amend the bill..."

"...With all the chubbing and the on-going House fight over voter ID, it's..."