Word: filibusterer
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Bush appears to have focused on the judiciary - with lifetime appointments that will far outlast him - as a top domestic priority far more intently than did the Clinton White House. To that end, the president has put up one highly conservative nominee after another, even recycling two that the Judiciary...
After four weeks of waiting out a Democratic filibuster on the Estrada nomination, Republicans tried to end the Democratic blockade—by making a so-called “cloture” vote—but fell five votes shy of ending the blockade,
The filibuster represents the first major setback for the Republican Party since they gained a majority in Congress last November.
The first modern filibuster Although the practice has been popular in the Senate since the 19th century, it wasn't until1919 that the Senate engaged in the modern terms of filibuster warfare. When a filibuster held up a vote on the Treaty of Versailles, the Senate invoked a two-thirds...
Famous filibusters In 1841, Henry Clay proposed a bank bill that was met with great disdain by his Democratic colleagues, who launched a filibuster. Until his departure from the Senate in 1932, Louisiana's Huey Long spent many hours - 15 hours, on one occasion - pontificating on nothing in particular (he...