And doing a bang up job doing it!
From elsewhere on the net:
In a very Clintionesque way the Senate (D)s are intentionally obfuscating the term "Filibuster".
a) Any Senator can extend debate {by denying unanimous consent} and thus require a cloture {stop talking} vote.
b) By definition, a filibuster ONLY occurs when a vote of cloture fails, not when it succeeds and a nomination proceeds to up or down vote.
A Senator may be trying to filibuster, and may refer to it as a "filibuster" but that does not a Official filibuster make.
Again, "trying" cloture is not a filibuster; defeating cloture is.
For the sake of clarity, predicates should be used when chucking around the "filibuster" term
such as:
Attempted/trying to Filibuster
-vs-
Official Filibuster
Obviously "clarity" is not what obfuscating chuckieSchumer seeks...