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...nearly a month, the U.S. Senate has done nothing but filibuster about ending filibusters. Last week it came to an end-with an easily predictable result. On the key vote in the dispute about whether to amend the Senate's rules so as to make it easier to shorten debate, the anti-filibuster forces were ahead 54 to 42-but fell ten short of the two-thirds majority they needed. Now, presumably, the Senate could get down to business...
...issue in the current filibuster is the proposal by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson to amend the Senate's Rule XXII, the cloture rule, so that debate in the Senate could be cut off by a three-fifths vote instead of the two-thirds now required. This change would make it easier to stop filibusters; so naturally the Southern Democrats, led by Georgia's Richard Russell, rose up to filibuster against it. With no physical strain imposed upon them, the Southerners could hold out for a long time. Asked how long, Senator Russell said: "Well...
...Mexico's liberal Clinton Anderson tried to amend Senate Rule XXII. He proposed that the rule permit debate to be shut off by three-fifths rather than two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. Georgia's Richard Russell had already served notice that any attempt to change the cloture rule would be met with "an all-out, last-ditch, to-the-end-of-the-road fight." Thereupon the Southern Democrats arose to start talking to death-as they had in previous years-the effort of Northern Democrats...
...crammed onto the ballots by men who could inscribe the Gettysburg Address on the head of a pin. They were couched in legal jargon that boggled the brain. U.S. voters struggled mightily to decipher and decide upon propositions to outlaw gambling, legalize liquor, install traffic lights, enlarge cities and amend state constitutions. In the hullabaloo over the 1962 election fights, the decisions on these propositions were often ignored. But in many states, what won may turn out to be even more important than...
Lodge wrote his senior honors thesis on the electoral college. At the same time he was writing it, his father, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, was conducting hearings on a plan to amend the Constitution to divide each state's electoral votes proportionally according to the popular vote. George's thesis topic was probably suggested by the Senator. "It wasn't the sort of thing I was really interested in at the time," George recalls, "but I hoped it would be useful to my father...