Word: filibusterer
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And dreary work it often seemed. Technically, it could not yet be called a filibuster, for speeches were still germane to the bill. The Southerners, for example, had great fun resurrecting a speech that President Johnson made as a freshman Senator in 1949. Opposing a proposed Fair Employment Practices Commission...
Lyndon's Mystery Kit. Humphrey, who is floor-managing the bill for the Democrats, was growing impatient. "When we get around to the latter part of April," said he, "we'll start spelling 'filibuster' in capital letters." Before it goes on for too long, Senator Humphrey...
Maybe. At this point, though, the man with the Mystery Kit is not Johnson but Everett McKinley Dirksen, and most of last week's offstage activity on the bill centered around his shambling figure. The reason for Dirksen's importance is that Humphrey now has only 59 or...
The Southern filibuster on the civil rights bill may delay Senate action on Mrs. Bunting's appointment for a short time, but it is expected that a vote will be taken before the filibuster ends.
War Declared. But all this, even at the expenditure of 15 days and more than half a million words, was merely a small filibuster before the real filibuster. Under consideration was the question of whether the Senate should take up the civil rights bill as its next order of business...