Word: filibusterer
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Congress now seems to agree on four parts of the long-delayed energy package: gas-price deregulation, the promotion of conservation, measures to encourage industrial conversion to coal and a drive for reform of utility rates. But it may be July before staffers translate the agreements into legislative language, and...
So began last week what promises to be a major Senate filibuster. It will not recreate the legendary filibusters of the past, however, when tireless orators recited whole books of the Bible while their exhausted colleagues napped on couches in the corridors. More conscious of their collective image nowadays, Senators...
The bitter words showed that Meany had not been softened by the President's support for the labor-reform bill. That bill, which the Senate is scheduled to take up this week, allows the National Labor Relations Board to impose stiff cash penalties on employers who unlawfully block union...
The incident underscored how frustrating-for both sides-the six-week-old debate has become. To end it, Byrd would prefer to move up the second treaty vote. But if he does, Kansas Republican Robert Dole has promised a filibuster that might prolong the debate for weeks. Worse yet, Massachusetts...
Metzenbaum said he used more than 200 amendments written by Direnfield in an attempt to filibuster the energy bill.