Word: filibusterer
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What both men were trying to avoid was a vote, engineered by Frist and set for this week, that would change Senate procedures to make it impossible for Democrats to continue blocking Bush's judicial appointments by talking them to death. The Democrats have been winning by filibuster--which requires...
At stake is the essence of the Senate: Should the institution maintain the unique culture that the framers of the Constitution envisioned for it, a place where a minority can have its say and even have a shot at winning a battle here and there? "The whole idea of the...
Warner, who has the aquiline look and formal bearing that sometimes seem right out of Henry Clay's era, has made no secret of his discomfort over the fact that he would even have to cast a vote on the filibuster. "I've been here 27 years," he said. "I...
It also helps that the legislation may be coming to a vote at a politically opportune time for a measure that can rightfully claim to be a truly bipartisan endeavor. Public approval of Congress in the latest Gallup poll stood at an abysmally low 35%, its worst in eight years...
That doesn't seem to be a worry for Scarborough. Neither does the fact that there are many evangelical churches, even conservative ones, that think the involvement of pastors in the filibuster fight is an inappropriate mixing of church and state. Scarborough is intent on saving the U.S. from "judicial...