Word: filibusterer
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Last week the civil rights filibuster became the longest in Senate history,* and Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, the bill's floor manager, was mad. "The whole procedure is disgusting," he cried. "All that is being accomplished here is a display of adult delinquency. Any intransigent minority can run the...
Many of Dirksen's amendments are technical, serve to tighten sloppy wording in the House-passed bill. But some are substantive, aimed at limiting the speed and frequency with which the Attorney General could move into local cases of discrimination. For example, in states that have agencies for handling...
* The Senate first began discussing civil rights on March 9, by week's end had worked 69 calendar days without considering any other major legislation. The longest previous filibuster was a 65-day talkathon in 1846 on the Oregon bill, by which the U.S. resolved to end its agreement...
After seven weeks on courtly dawdling, the Senate appears ready to work seriously on the Civil Rights bill. Sen. Hubert Humphrey indicated the long pause was over when he changed his description of the Southern oratory from extended debate to filibuster. But it was a Southerner, Sen. Herman Talmadge, who...
The controversial Congressman from Harlem ranged from the American Revolution to the current filibuster as he hammered home his message that "the United States is finished as a great power unless it rapidly solves the civil rights problem to satisfy the minimum demands of the Black Revolution."