Word: filibusterer
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The U.S. Senate had been hamstrung for nine days by a filibuster that Minority Leader Everett Dirksen called "the second battle of 14(b)." As in the first, which was waged during the waning days of last year's congressional session, Dirksen's aim was to block Administration...
By all odds, it was the most flaccid filibuster in memory. There was no reading of recipes or telephone books, none of the oldtime Bible-spouting, rip-snorting oratory. Dirksen and his filibuster co-captain, North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, had assigned each of their 27 teammates to a group...
By week's end the pressure had gotten too much for Mansfield, who announced that he would ask for a vote this week on a cloture petition to shut off the filibuster. That was fine with Dirksen. With all but six of his 32 Republican colleagues firmly behind him...
Once the Viet Nam appropriation is out of the way, Congress will turn to forensics in earnest. It will deal with little brand-new legislation (one possible exception: a moderate civil rights bill providing for more equitable ways of empaneling juries in Southern trials), but the leftovers from the first...
Alabama's Governor George Corley Wallace, who regards himself as the very prototype of the Southern statehouse segregationist, was bitterly attacked last week as a "liberalizer" and was defeated by that grand old Southern political device, the filibuster.