Word: filibusterer
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Senate Warlords. Kennedy's tax troubles are one indication of how badly he has lost control of Congress during these dog days. It was Senate liberals, presumably on his side, who stopped the Senate with a ludicrous filibuster against one of his bills (see following story). Democrats currently hold...
...entertainment was a filibuster, staged not by Deep Southerners−the most frequent filibusterers of recent years−but by liberal Democrats, notably Oregon's Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore, Texas' Ralph Yarborough. Some of them, over the years, had conspicuously denounced Southern filibusters against civil rights measures. Ex-Republican Morse (he quit the G.O.P. in the midst of the 1952 campaign) once called filibustering a "disgraceful and contemptible procedure," and has been one of the Senate's most vociferous advocates of rule changes to shut off filibusters, even...
The U.S. Senate had resigned itself to a few more days of filibuster when suddenly there came a stillness-and then it was all over before anyone could say Appomattox. By a vote of 77-16, the Senate approved a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax for voting in...
For ten days the filibuster continued in friendly fashion. Then the Southerners ran out of words, and the sponsor of the amendment, Florida's Spessard Holland, rose to deliver the death blow. A Southern conservative, Holland had led the successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his own...
With that, Mansfield began scouting around to see if any Southerners wanted to resume the filibuster. "We were careful to check all of those fellows," said Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, "so that they couldn't complain that we'd tried to rush them. We asked John Stennis and...