Word: filibusterer
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The traditional Senate filibuster was tedious, to be sure-relays of Senators, hour after hour, croaking hoarse-voiced recitations of the glories of Southern recipes or readings from reference books. But the filibuster could also be dramatic, full of tension and conflict and suspense. By keeping the Senate in session...
But all that has changed. Gone is the ordeal, the struggle, the drama. All that is left is talk. Last week a filibuster was going on in the Senate, and it was the dullest show in town. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took the life out of the filibuster by limiting...
At issue in the current filibuster is the proposal by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson to amend the Senate's Rule XXII, the cloture rule, so that debate in the Senate could be cut off by a three-fifths vote instead of the two-thirds now...
Sen. Neuberger called the filibuster a "ridiculous" institution that prevented the Senate from carrying on its business.
But this time there did not seem to be much passion in the dispute. Although Majority Leader Mike Mansfield supported Anderson's stand, he declined to throw the Senate into round-the-clock sessions; in this, he was backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who said he did not...