Word: filibusterer
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For half a century, Southern Senators have cherished the filibuster as a last defense against civil rights legislation. Thus there was an air of anomaly on the Senate floor last week as Mississippi's John Stennis led a virtually solid front of Southerners to join Administration supporters in imposing...
Last week's House appropriation must still survive the Senate, which last March voted 51 to 46 to cancel the SST. Senators may be more reluctant to reverse their ground. Anti-SST Senators were confident of defeating the new appropriation in a vote this week. If they do not...
Douglas Jones, a legislative aid in Gravel's office, said however that Gravel "is willing to go over the falls on this." Although Gravel agreed with antiwar Senators last Friday not to filibuster until the McGovern-Hatfield amendment has been discussed, he is, according to Jones, still committed to prohibiting...
Jones added that opposition to the draft is "picking up momentum in the Senate." Jones counts 13 Senators "who have taken an explicit position to end the draft" and "four or five" who have agreed to filibuster, including Senators Harold E. Hughes (D-Iowa), Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), Marlow W...
An aide to Hartke said yesterday that "the Senator will participate in lengthy discussion. Now whether 'lengthy discussion' is any different from filibuster, I'm not sure."