Word: filibusterer
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Back to Caesar. The cloture vote came hard to Senators fond of tracing the history of the legislative filibuster back to ancient Rome, where an eloquent praetor named Julius Caesar tried (unsuccessfully) to talk to death a measure ordering the execution of Catiline's coconspirators.
With this state of affairs fairly obvious to all, the President last week met with Democratic congressional leaders and presented them with a list of ten "must" measures to be passed before session's end. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen allowed that Congress would still be working in October...
Silent Filibuster. As a sometime Senate talk champion, Oregon's Morse fittingly started the filibuster off fortnight ago, getting the floor and holding it for two rambling days. Another day was spent in constant calls for quorum, in which only six minutes were spent on debate. In frantic attempts...
And so it went for five days before all present exhausted their voices, their patience and their defiance. The filibuster ended in an inconclusive truce, and the Senate turned to voting on piled-up appropriations bills.
Embarrassing as the filibuster was to the Democratic leaders in the Senate, it was even more embarrassing to President Kennedy. Almost all of his 1962 legislative programs have been defeated or delayed in Congress by a coalition of, as he put it, "nearly all the Republicans and a handful of...