Word: filibusterer
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But Committeeman James F. Fitzgerald immediately launched a filibuster against the motion to reconsider which only ended when the sixth member was miraculously produced from his sick bed in an adjoining room. George F. Oleson staggered to his chair, barked a loud "no" when the roll was called, and then...
In an election year, when a "nay" might seem like a vote for atheism, Ev was confident that he could put the amendment over. Nor was he worried that Senate liberals might try to talk it to death. "Well, now," he said, "if anybody wants to filibuster the Lord . . ."
With this exchange, the bill was clearly doomed. Against a backdrop of Negro-incited violence in the cities, the public showed little enthusiasm for new ventures into civil rights-and outright antipathy to the bill's open-housing section. What is disturbing the nation, in Dirksen's phrase...
In 1964, when the nation was appalled by the brutal treatment of Negro demonstrators at the hands of white Southern police, the Senate for the first time invoked cloture to pass a civil rights bill. Again in 1965, a Senate filibuster was choked off, and the voting rights bill became...
Hitting North. So incensed was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield by his colleagues' purposeful absenteeism that he threatened to have the sergeant at arms arrest recalcitrant Senators and dragoon them onto the floor. After this warning, a quorum finally materialized, and the bill was accepted for debate. However, having reluctantly...