Word: filibusterer
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For only the third time in the past half-century, the Senate last week went to a fourth cloture vote to break a filibuster: the two-month-long rearguard action to keep a bill creating a consumer protection agency from coming to a final vote on the Senate floor. The...
If the bill does not reach the floor this session-a fifth unsuccessful cloture vote would certainly kill it-its proponents feel that it will easily pass early next year, probably in an even stronger form. Five or six opponents of the measure are retiring, including Sam Ervin of North...
When he returned to the Senate after the election, he carried a folding chair. Where, he mischievously asked, should he sit? He was finally placed on the Republican side of the aisle, but he was stripped of his important committee assignments and relegated to the District of Columbia Committee. Resisting...
Watergate's assorted bunglers, burglars and bagmen have prompted Congress to move, albeit ponderously, toward adopting a new act. Last week the Senate choked off, by a 64-to-30 vote, a filibuster led by conservative Alabama Democrat James Allen, who abhors public financing. Two days later, by a...
Their second was in killing public finance." At one point, the White House dispatched an Air Force plane to fly the two Republican Senators from Oklahoma back to Washington to vote against ending the filibuster.