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Spencer B. L. Lenfield ’12, the recipient of the 110th annual Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize, was honored at a dinner held at Loeb House on Saturday evening...
Halfway through the current 111th Congress, the filibuster has already been invoked 74 times, putting it on pace to surpass the 110th Congress, which set the high mark with 139. That was more than double the mark set by the Democratic minority in the previous Congress, 68. By comparison, there were only 70 filibusters in the entire period between 1919 (when Senate rules were changed to allow supermajorities to end a filibuster...
This problem has increased markedly since the Republicans became the minority in the Senate in 2007. In the 109th Congress, from 2005 to 2007, motions to vote on cloture—the procedural manifestation of a filibuster—numbered 68. In the 110th Congress, from 2007 to 2009, that number more than doubled to 139. The current Congress is on pace to match that figure, with 67 cloture motions filed this year alone. The current Republican minority has chosen to filibuster anything and everything, subverting majority rule...
...over 18 holes than had ever been achieved before by beating odds-on favorite Tiger Woods in the final round of the USPGA championship. Yang's triumph means that the Asian world finally has a major winner, and he couldn't have done it under less enviable circumstances. The 110th-ranked player in the world was paired with Woods, who, lest we forget, had won all his 14 major championships - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and USPGA - when holding the lead going into the last round and had never lost any tournament on U.S. soil when leading by more...
...billion fund that had been choked by conditions Congress placed on the money. "We created a bill that did a lot of good things but made it cumbersome to deal with foreclosures," Dodd concedes, adding that his committee held 82 hearings "on the foreclosure issue" in the 110th Congress...