Word: filibusterer
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One of the more spectacular activities of NRC last year was a attempted filibuster of a rent control law in Cambridge. Forty NRC members, carrying signs reading "rent control means people control," dominated the microphone at a City Council meeting for three hours while a fuming audience for 1000 chanted...
That turned out to be only partly true. McGovern dutifully voted the labor line much of the time, but he flunked one crucial test. He voted against cutting off a filibuster that was preventing a vote on repeal of the right-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act-a...
Commencement speeches are often exercises in bombast that run second only to the Senate filibuster. The class of '72 at the University of Alabama received a rare treat this year: a 250-word commencement address, aptly titled "A Few Words," delivered by Dr. Larry T. McGehee, 36, chancellor of...
Both sides, in fact, have canceled meetings in the past for various reasons, but Porter's threat had an air of finality about it. At a Washington press conference, President Nixon complained that the Paris talks amounted to "a three-and-a-half year filibuster on the part of...
Informal Filibuster, Republicans were unhappy because none of the measures clamped down on labor contributions to Democratic candidates. As in the Senate, the Republicans staged an informal filibuster in the House. They kept demanding quorum calls, so the House leadership agreed to put off the vote until after the Thanksgiving...