Word: filibusterer
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"He has really found his niche," says a friend. "He recognizes you don't have to have the top power seat in the Senate to be extremely powerful." Lott has breathed life into the dormant Senate Rules and Administration Committee, whose chairmanship he got as a consolation prize after being...
WITHDREW. MIGUEL ESTRADA, 41, conservative Washington lawyer and George W. Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals; from the pending nomination, following a bitter two-year battle in the Senate. Democrats had staged a filibuster to thwart the nomination, which they charged was another effort...
Miguel A. Estrada, the 1986 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate whose confirmation to the federal bench was impeded by a Democratic filibuster, conceded defeat last week and withdrew his nomination.
Estrada became the first Appeals Court nominee defeated by filibuster.
President Bush may be making headway on the thorny issue of prescription-drug benefits for seniors by playing against type. Rather than foisting his demands on Congress--as he did with the tax cut--Bush has left it to the House and Senate to come up with a plan. Sure...