Word: filibusterer
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Beyond the President's program for new legislation, there will be tussles over old familiar issues. The Senate is girding again for its usual argument over reducing the two-thirds vote required for cloture on a filibuster, and Republicans in both houses have prepared proposals that would cancel the...
To prevent controversial issues from coming to a vote, parliamentarians of the past have invented such devices as the filibuster, the return to committee, the pigeonhole and the quorum call. Last week the U.N. General Assembly achieved an ingenious new direction in creative parliamentarianism: the elective nonvote.
If Pearson can marshal a few more Conservative votes and get around another Diefenbaker filibuster, he may yet have his national flag - without calling for a vote of confidence and risking a general election.
Few Canadian parliamentary issues have generated more heat and less light than the fight over a national flag. In May, Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson unfurled his choice for a flag - three red maple leaves on a white ground, bounded by two blue bars. And for the next six weeks...
"Since I am representing your relatively faithful opposition," Dietz began, "I would respectfully wish to know if there are any limitations on my speaking." Informed that there were none, Dietz turned to his audience and thundered, "In that case this will be a filibuster!" Students cheered; officers and directors of...