Word: filibusterer
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In the Senate, half a dozen Democrats with the gravity of a band of martyrs had just made another kind of decision. They would try to filibuster long enough for the nation to wire its reactions to the presidential veto message. Perhaps an avalanche of emphatic last-minute protests, plus...
Illinois' big, shaggy Paul Douglas (who, like Minnesota's Humphrey, had voted for the bill in the first place) joined the filibuster. Obviously torn by the issues at stake, Douglas blurted: "In such imperfect wisdom as I have-and I say this with no sense of self-righteousness...
¶ Fell nine short of the 64 votes needed to impose cloture on FEPC, the only way to shut off a filibuster if the bill were brought up. Voting for cloture: 22 Democrats and 33 Republicans; against, 27 Democrats and 6 Republicans. Civil rights legislation was dead in the 81st...
Until Christmas? Just after midnight, Cain abruptly ended his speech and demanded a quorum call. His filibuster had lasted 12 hours and 8 minutes.* The sergeant-at-arms began routing out snoozing Senators and, when he could not find enough, was ordered to arrest a few-a temper-raising procedure...
This week Cain announced spryly that he was ready to resume his filibuster at a moment's notice, but the Senate resoundingly (44-25) defeated Wherry's motion to recommit the bill. Harry Cain gave up.