Word: filibusterer
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...Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton finally let fly at the fact that his fellow civil rights proponents were "contribut ing innocently or inadvertently to the so-called filibuster." He said he had been holding a watch as Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson, who makes no bones about being one of the filibusterers, spoke directly on the topic of civil rights. Said Cotton: "I discovered that when the Senator from Virginia was credited with having occupied the time from approximately 10:30 until approximately 1:30, nearly one of those three hours was taken up by other Senators on extraneous subjects having nothing...
Some time this week the Southerners are expected to give in and let the bill come to the floor. Then they will begin to filibuster in earnest. But yet another delay is in prospect. Just for form's sake, Oregon's Wayne Morse, a pro-rights man, believes...
Russell has named as his lieutenants Alabama's scholarly Lister Hill, who weighed in with a 33-page speech in the filibuster's first hours; Mississippi's stentorian John C. Stennis; and Louisiana's peppery Allen Ellender, who held the floor for 25 hours, with overnight...
But eventually the Democratic filibuster will end. That will come shortly after Leader Mansfield, having counted noses in his own forces and consulted with Republicans, walks quickly up to Russell and says something like: "Dick, I've got the votes for cloture."
Shortly after the session got under way, Russell successfully pulled off his first parliamentary coup. Under the Senate rules, a motion to introduce a bill is not debatable and therefore not subject to filibuster during the "morning hour"-which actually begins at noon and lasts for two hours. Mans field...