Word: filibusterer
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Unpatriotic is the mildest adjective possible for the pro-poll-tax Senators' use of the cherished right to filibuster. The tactics that made filmland's Senator Jimmie Stewart a hero in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" put real-life Senator Bilbo and his fourteen-odd accomplices in far more villainous...
In secret the Isolationist command-some ten Senators, some 50 House members-met in the Caucus room of the Senate Office Building one night last week, gloomily chewed the bitter cud of defeat, gloomily decided that even a Senate filibuster was out of the question. Missing was their best strategist...
But the battle passed them by. As the bill was called up, mild, grey-maned Senator Walter F. George of Georgia tiptoed about the Senate floor, conferred with his Finance Committee members. Rather than face a filibuster they decided to drop their amendment, bring it up in another bill.
Primary cause of the disease, said Dr. Lippmann, is the obstructionism of Congress. Unlimited debate in the Senate can be shut off only by a two-thirds vote. This is a valuable rule, but its abuse in a period of emergency may force the U.S., to all intents & purposes, to...
Congressional reaction to the bill was more like a reflex. Members who saw that the British Fleet could use New York and Norfolk as repair harbors at U. S. expense jumped like cats from a hot stove. There was immediate general agreement that the bill would pass-with perhaps slight...