Word: filibusterer
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When the Senate convenes on January 3, the filibuster can be abolished or controlled as the majority desires, and the fate of civil rights legislation in the Eighty-Fifth Congress will probably hang in the balance.
A group of Senators will assert that the Senate's rules expired at adjournment last summer, and that the body is now governed by ordinary parliamentary procedure. They will seek to enact a new set of rules with more effective limitations on debate than the present requirement of 64 Senate...
The Democratic Party is admittedly weak on this issue, and constructive action must be undertaken by the Republicans if anything is to be achieved. But the G.O.P. in the past has shown a regrettable predilection for quibbles over semantics, both in 1953 when it overwhelmed an attempt like the forthcoming...
The Republican Party should fulfill its debts both to the huge number of Negro voters who supported it this year and to its heritage of Lincoln. Vice President Nixon, as the Senate's presiding officer, and Minority Leader Knowland are able to provide the leadership if the President will not...
Clark thus became the ninth Senator to announce publicly that he would vote to change the filibuster rule, which allows virtually unlimited debate, and results in the killing of most civil rights legislation.