Word: filibusterer
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Rival Ambitions. In the bitter battle over medicare, Johnson also lost the whole Social Security bill to which medicare was attached. Passed by both houses, this bill would have provided $5 to $7 raises monthly for some 20 million persons on Social Security. It collapsed in conference when three Democratic...
The Senate last week blasted clear of its great reapportionment logjam. After six weeks of didactic debate, fulminating filibuster and mule-headed obstinacy on all sides, a quorum of weary Senators finally compromised, 44-38, on a "sense of Congress" resolution: federal courts are requested to grant a breathing spell...
In the Senate, up for a vote came a toothless, Johnson-backed compromise designed to end a five-week filibuster, mainly by Democratic liberals, against Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's attempt to delay enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling that both branches of every state legislature must be...
Bikini or Blanket? Far from producing unity, Pearson's flag produced a parliamentary spectacle that Canadians came to look upon with disgust. No sooner had Pearson's minority Liberal government proposed the flag than it was under violent attack-chiefly by the opposition Conservative Party headed by ex...
In the end, it was Minority Leader Everett Dirksen who, with Democratic cooperation, practically wrote the civil rights bill. But as floor manager for the bill, Humphrey took on the thankless task of recruiting Republican support with judicious compromise, fending off hot-eyed civil-rightsers who might have upset the...