Word: filibusterer
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For the last three weeks, twenty liberal Senators have been filling the halls of their chamber with attacks on the tidelands oil bill. After something like four hundred hours of debate, what started as an "educational effort" has slid over into the classification of a filibuster.
For this reason, the debate is serving none but an obstructive purpose. If they persist in it, the Senators will weaken their strong moral case against anti-civil rights filibusters by turning themselves into the pots which call the kettle black. The Senators should let the tidelands bill pass, knowing...
For years, Morse and his fellow liberals have been objecting to the filibuster as a wicked, minority-rule device. Now Morse was using typical filibuster tactics, not against any specific piece of legislation but simply to call attention to Wayne Morse.
Filibuster or Firmness. Newsmen's feelings were divided about Ike's first conference. The New York Daily News headlined its editorial: REAL NICE, IKE. Others disagreed. Snapped one wire-service correspondent: "He filibustered for 20 minutes and gave us ten." The Minneapolis Tribune editorialized that he was "pretty...
Even Eternal Rome was beginning to wonder if it was eternal enough to outlast the filibuster in Italy's parliament. For 37 days the Communists had hog-tied the Chamber of Deputies with their desperate war against Premier Alcide de Gasperi's electoral reform bill.