Word: filibusterer
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Bob Taft quickly shut off the only threat of an opening-day battle. Nineteen Senators, including four Republicans, had joined in an attempt to adopt an effective anti-filibuster rule. But neither Taft nor any other G.O.P. leader wanted to open the Republican 83rd Congress with a fight. On Taft...
The party of Abraham Lincoln, as it often roguishly describes itself, has maintained its spotless record. The last thing it gave Negroes was liquor for their votes in the Reconstruction era. Two days ago the Republican Senators voted, 41 to 5, to table a motion to alter the filibuster rule...
This is one of the oldest--and dirtiest--tricks in the Republican bag. By steadfastly preserving Rule 22, which allows unlimited "debate" unless 64 Senators vote for cloture, the Republicans make it possible for the Southerners to kill by filibuster every piece of legislation designed to give Negroes a couple...
Then, since the Southerners are all Democrats, the Republicans can go home to campaign and tell their Negro constituents: "You see what those Democrats do to you? Every time we try to get something through for you, they stop us with the filibuster. We are helpless!"
But Senators Taft and Knowland and the rest of the Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New...