Word: extendalong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Featherbedding. Then, with only five Senators on the floor, a radiant Ev Dirksen led off the extendalong with a three-hour-20-minute oration. It was a mere trumpet flourish compared to some buncombe spectaculars of the past.* Under Mansfield's gentlemanly ground rules, of course, this was more like featherbedding than filibustering. Dirksen read newspaper editorials, won permission to have sacks of anti-repeal mail brought into the chamber, told Dirksenesque jokes to his colleagues. "I am sure the Senator has heard about the schoolteacher who said, 'Johnny, how do you spell straight?' Johnny replied...
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