Word: filibusterer
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New Spoiler? Last week, after a 33-day filibuster and three abortive attempts to turn off the talkathon by a two-thirds majority vote, Dirksen and the liberals finally succeeded in invoking cloture, though without a single vote to spare. With members now restricted to one hour's speaking...
For six weeks, the Senate lay becalmed in a turbid filibuster sustained by a coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans. Chief among the obstructionists was Dirksen. The bill, as passed by the House, provided federal protection for civil rights workers. In the Senate, however, Minnesota's Walter Mondale...
To Dirksen, the open-housing provision seemed just as "unconstitutional" a few weeks ago as it did in 1966, when he succeeded in killing a similar Administration proposal. He lobbied against the Mondale measure until Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called for a cloture vote to break the filibuster. The liberal...
As soon as the quickly drawn compromise was ready, it seemed certain that cloture would shut off the filibuster and the bill be speedily enacted. But Dirksen had miscalculated his power to swing most of the conservative Republicans with him. Some were affronted by the haste with which he demanded...
Despite the overwhelming 372-to-62 vote in the House of Commons, many Britons were deeply disturbed by the racist implications of the bill and by the first restrictions on the unchallenged right, tracing back to Magna Carta, of all British citizens to enter the home country at will. As...