Table 1.1. Filibustering by the numbers,
1st–110th Congresses.

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Table 2.1. Most frequently filibustered issues by era.

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Table 2.2. Party affiliation of filibuster leaders.

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Table 3.1. Theoretical and hypothetical
considerations relating to filibustering
in the Senate.

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Table 3.2. Difference of means test results,
102nd–110th Congresses.

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Table 4.1. OLS regression results predicting
the number of filibusters per
Congress (80th–110th Congresses).

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Table 4.2. End result of filibustering in the
Senate, 1790–2008.

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Table 5.1. Frequent filibusterers and ideology.

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Table 5.2. Filibusters, ideology, and the filibuster
pivot, 109th Congress.

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Table 5.3. Rare-events logit results, truncated
dataset (102nd–110th Congresses).

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