Word: filibusterer
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In the weary closing days of the last session, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was filling the calendar for the session to follow when his distracted lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New...
When the Senate reconvened after hearing the President's message it found South Carolina's old Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith still sweating to get the farm bill out of committee, the calendar wide open. Senator Smith's junior colleague, Jimmy Byrnes, tried to stave off the...
By the weekend adjournment any hope that the Wagnerites could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed...
Farm Bill. Main spur to the Senate Agriculture Committee was the antilynching filibuster on the floor, which could be ended only by the introduction of a Farm Bill. After a week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to...
Question of what Congress will make of this formidable program in the next six weeks, and of whether it will do anything much besides laying the groundwork for the regular session, was this week almost as mysterious as Senator Ashurst made it sound. The Wages & Hours Bill was last week...