Word: filibusterer
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After that, it was all but over. The bill next faces a last-ditch Democratic filibuster in the Senate. Its major clauses:
Even more satisfying was last week's move by the House Rules Committee to free the civil rights bill for floor debate. Committee Chairman Howard Smith agreed weeks ago to release the bill by the end of January, and he did indeed keep his pledge-even though he opposes...
Still, Smith has promised that a bill will emerge from his committee and go to the House floor by the end of this month. When and if it passes the House, it faces an inevitable Senate filibuster by Democrats.
King's most intensive efforts will be centered on Alabama and Mississippi, "because there the problem is greatest. The Negro suffers more and more. How to deliver an all-out attack? This is what we have to think about. I'm thinking now in terms of thousands and...
O'Neill predicted last night that opponents to the bill would try to stretch the hearings and filibuster in the Senate debate. He said that the House discharge petition, although lacking enough signatures to bypass the Rules Committee, will exert sufficient pressure to bring early passage of the bill next...