Tag-team Hold in the United States

Tag-team Hold (in Politics)

Related to political science, the following is a definition of Tag-team Hold in the U.S. practice of politics: A means by which two or more senators agree to circumvent a 2011 resolution limiting secret senate holds to two days.

One senator will inform his party leader of his intent to place a hold. Before two days pass, the senator will withdraw his hold, at which time his tag-team partner submits a new hold request. The senators rotate in this manner, and the identity of neither is revealed.