Word: filibusterer
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He bore down heavily on the civil rights issue, fully aware that Goldwater's image is badly flawed on that subject. The Republican Party, said Scranton, must be "responsible for human liberty, its preservation on the North American continent and its inspiration around the entire world; responsible for giving...
By that time the civil rights bill had been before Congress for six months and six days. Reported to the House last Nov. 20, after 22 days of Judiciary Committee hearings, the bill was debated for nine days, then passed by the House 290 to 130. On March 26, the...
Required for cloture: two-thirds of the Senators who are "present and voting." Thus, if all 100 Senators were present, 67 votes would be needed to stop the Democratic filibuster against the civil rights bill. The bill's bipartisan supporters say that now that they have presented the package...
The Key That Opens the Lock. An even better case in point is this year's civil rights bill. Without a large number of Republican votes, the Democratic Party cannot even begin to hope to impose cloture and thereby shut off the filibuster by some of the Senate'...
DOES anyone really know what the civil rights bill now proposes? It has been kicked around for an awfully long while. First sent to the Congress by President Kennedy last June, it was partly changed by the House of Representatives and sent on to the Senate in February. It has...