Word: filibusterer
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Springtime in Paris this year has carried more than a whiff of the May days of 15 years ago. University students, occasionally joined by professors in ermine-trimmed robes, have taken to the streets; at times the air has been filled with hurtling rocks and police tear gas. At issue...
Questions about whether he can take heat, Mondale says, are unfair. "To get the filibuster level lowered from two-thirds to 60%," he says, "I spent four straight months on the floor of the Senate. The leadership fought me hard on it, but I won. I spent hundreds of hours...
Daniel deLallis, the Coop's book director, attributed the thin showing to confusion over the date of Hart's appearance at the Coop Originally. Hart was supposed to arrive just before spring break but a Senate filibuster forced him to reschedule his appearance.
At first, it looked as if Senator Robert Kasten would succeed, aided by what Dole angrily termed "the most massive campaign in history to intimidate Congress." The bankers had bombarded legislators with more than 1 million anti-withholding letters, most of them prewritten, preaddressed and with stamps supplied by the...
Dole failed by ten votes to kill Kasten's rider; Kasten failed by only one vote to end Dole's filibuster. The impasse was broken when Kasten succumbed to the heat from Senate Republican leaders and agreed to withdraw his rider, in return for a promise that he...