Word: filibusterer
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This week debate on the Robinson Compromise is to commence. Most opponents of the old bill declared themselves opposed to the new bill on principle, but observers agreed that if it could be brought to vote, Joe Robinson had lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength...
When the bill first came up, a fierce battalion of pork-seekers took it to a committee-of-the-whole and earmarked $505,000,000 for flood and drought control, roads and public works. A hot battle began. With earmarkers in control, the House began to approve pork amendments one...
Rarer than a day in June is the day when the leaders of the House filibuster against an Administration bill. Yet so they did last week, for the House had gone rambunctious and was threatening to run away with the Relief bill. For a long time the House had been...
One afternoon they took the bill, in committee-of-the-whole, and attached their earmarking amendments to it. Two days later Leader Rayburn attempted to pull the Administration forces together and undo the damage. Representative Woodrum, bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy...
What raised his spirits was a telephone call from the Esterbrook brothers, who were in Washington to arrange a $64,000,000 Government loan to save their shaky railroad empire. They had the okay of the F. R. A. but needed one from the Federal court in their own district...