Word: filibusterer
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In an effort to break the Democratic filibuster on President Bush's judicial nominees, REPUBLICAN SENATORS like Bill Frist, above, took in cots and blankets to launch a marathon session on the Senate floor. Mark Pryor read from Robert Caro's Master of the Senate; Rick Santorum quoted from Hamlet...
Schumer praised Democrats for their “amazing courage” in carrying out the controversial filibuster of judicial nominee Miguel Estrada, who was being considered for a position on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
To the civilized world, this trickery might seem low-down. But in Texas, cowboy logic rules, and last week’s array of torturous gerrymanders was only the latest in a string of underhanded tactics. This is the same controversy, after all, that inspired the state’s...
In any other state or municipality, both of these big figures would actually have the legal power to control their own education policy. Yet, for D.C., it’s Congress that controls the budget. And when the usual political leaders failed to support the Democratic Party line, anti-voucher...
With these facts in mind, the justification for keeping vouchers out of the hands of Washington’s urban poor is puzzling. Despite the House’s approval of the bill, Senate Democrats less a few of their ranks and with a few Republicans have vowed to filibuster...