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These moderates worked together to avert a doomsday scenario and save the filibuster because they recognized that the filibuster is needed to preserve the deliberative nature of the Senate; the filibuster rewards working across party lines, encourages politicians to reach out and try to convince the other side, and prevents a slim majority from running roughshod over the minority party...
...winning a battle here and there? "The whole idea of the Senate is that it's different from the House. The passions of the moment can cool here," says North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad, one of the Senators who was trying to come up with a deal to avert the vote on the nuclear option. If Republicans can manage to end the filibuster of judicial nominees, Democrats warn, it is only a matter of time before they end the filibuster on other issues as well...
...that they've drawn national attention, would the students support a Capital Hill deal to avert the expected vote? No. "Any sort of compromise that undermines the filibuster isn't really a compromise," says Jason Vagliano, a graduating Princeton senior and a registered Independent. "It's abolishing a 200-year-old protection of the minority voice in Congress...
...bomb in order to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. possessed such a capability. He feared that keeping the weapon a secret would guarantee its widespread use in future wars. Oppenheimer, influenced by Niels Bohr, idealistically envisioned openly sharing nuclear information with the Soviets to avert an arms race. He feared atomic war and nuclear terrorism. Oppenheimer used the fame that came out of the Manhattan Project to press these issues, but President Truman described him as a “cry-baby scientist” after Oppenheimer confessed, “I feel I have blood...
...previous game, Harvard kept pace early with Bucknell (3-8), but failed to avert a scoring burst before the halftime whistle as it fell on March...