Word: filibusterer
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Since Senator Taft can end the debate quickly at any time, no true filibuster actually exists. 64 signatures are needed for cloture and over 70 Senators favor the bill. If Senator Taft prefers not to close the debate, the opposition can hardly be reproached for continuing to oppose. Judging from...
In any case, the only way to abolish the filibuster is to demonstrate that it is not a monopoly of anti-civil rights forces but can also be used against pet measures of the Republican majority. Only then will many Republicans who denounce filibusters but vote to weaken the cloture...
(2) Of the 70 Senators who favor the bill, Taft cannot count on 64 to pass a cloture bill. The Southerners favoring the bill will not vote for cloture. The Southern Senators, not the pro-filibuster Republicans, are the crux of the filibuster problem. No matter what precedents are set...
...such fervid Democratic opponents of the filibuster as New York's Senator Herbert H. Lehman, Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey are now obviously engaged in one. He was not shocked but was irked at Alabama's Democratic Senator Lister Hill, a veteran filibusterer. At one point, Hill, who had held the floor for three days, strolled down the aisle, clapped a hand on Taft's shoulder and called him "my sweet, good friend from Ohio, whose shining virtue is the virtue of integrity." When Hill later began to move toward Taft...
By the end of last week U.S. Senators had poured forth half a million words during three weeks of debate on the tidelands bill. This was too much for Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, who had a word for the tactics being used by opponents of the bill: filibuster.