Word: filibusterer
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The 87th Congress died bitterly, but the 88th convened in a climate of sweetness and light. The Senate postponed its customary opening filibuster until after the President's State of the Union message this week. The House whisked past its Rules Committee disagreement so fast that nobody really had...
Yet for all Unander's lack of color, most Oregonians agree that he is giving Morse the race of his life. He plugs away at Morse's gabbiness, chides Morse for leading the Senate filibuster against the Kennedy Administration's communications satellite bill this year, accuses Morse...
Beyond that. Congress agreed to help bail the United Nations out of the indebtedness incurred in its special operations in the Congo and Middle East by buying up to $100 million in bonds, but not beyond the total purchased by all other U.N. member nations. It passed a threeyear, $435...
In your article on the filibuster staged by Wayne Morse [Aug. 24], you state that under President Wilson's angry urging, the Senate provided cloture could be invoked by two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. If I am not mistaken, the Senate rule provided that cloture could...
Eleven times cloture votes have been taken against Southerners filibustering against civil rights; eleven times the votes have failed. Until last week, cloture had not been imposed since 1927, when Drys gagged a filibuster by Wets against a bill to beef up Prohibition enforcement.