Word: filibusterer
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The Senate had debated labor legislation for two weeks, trying to do something with the House's Case bill, aimed at curbing the economic powers of labor. The debate had grown violent; into dignified speeches crept such words as "skunk." Labor's overheated friend, Claude Pepper, and a...
¶ Wasted one afternoon in filibuster and six quorum calls to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor.
There were more of the same; all were beaten. But still the Senate could not get on with the vote. There was still Bill Langer to reckon with-a man determined never to let his anger be watered by reason. His objection to the draft extension resolution had been ignored...
The La Follette-Monroney suggestions do not extend to abolition of seniority rule of the Senatorial filibuster, because it was felt that an attack on these institutions would kill whatever chance of Congressional acceptance he reform proposals night have. The report, however, does advocate another hotly, debated innovation--creation of...
The flow of Southern oratory which had stopped all Senate business since Jan. 17 ended by drowning all opposition. New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, who had tried to force a vote on establishing a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, finally gave up. The 24-day filibuster triumphantly ended...