He led a successful filibuster against renewal of the act.

He predicted a successful filibuster against legislation to revise campaign financing, for example, saying Democrats would write a bill to help themselves, not the country.

It was also a rerun: during his 1986 re-election campaign, Mr. D'Amato led a successful filibuster to keep a trainer-jet contract on Long Island.

But he didn't press the issue for six months - plenty of time for opponents to organize a successful filibuster in a Congress that was settling into its summer snooze.

A group of Democratic Senators led a successful filibuster of the bill on December 21, and the language was subsequently removed.

The successful filibuster defeated of the legislation.

The meeting was turbulent, according to the Yonhap news agency, as small shareholders mounted a successful filibuster.

When Republicans opposed President Lyndon Johnson's choice for chief justice, Abe Fortas, they led a successful filibuster to stop him from getting the job.

It failed in September, when Sen. John McCain led a successful filibuster against it.

A successful filibuster would insure that the campaign finance debate would end once again this year in a partisan stalemate.