Word: filibusterer
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The longest-touted and best-advertised problem facing the 85th Congress was a promised drive in the Senate for civil-rights legislation. Well aware that the Democrats had lost large chunks of their usual big-city vote in civil-rights-conscious areas in the November election, both Democrats and Republicans...
Civil-righters, led by New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, decided to try an end run in the debate, based on the idea that the Senate should adopt its rules at the opening of each session-which it has never done. This done, the insurgents could then have a...
Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, up for 1958 re-election in an intensely civil-rights-conscious state, last week added his name to the brief list of Senators who will fight for a filibuster-busting rules change in the opening days of the 85th Congress. The attempt is...
Much the same attempt to limit debate was made in 1953, but it accomplished nothing. Theoretically the U.S. Senate considers its rules virtually sacrosanct. It describes itself as a "continuing body"-with continuing rules. Its purists hold that the filibuster is not so much a deceitful parliamentary device as a...
One of the key issues in the North-South conflict is that of the filibuster. An opening day attempt will be made to change Senate Rule XXII to facilitate limitation of debate, and Stevenson said he was "very much in favor" of this change. He said he had been "largely...