Word: filibusterer
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The path to enactment, as it is envisioned now, requires two steps. First, the House would pass the exact bill that cleared the Senate on Christmas Eve - even though it is loaded with provisions that many in the House say they would not accept in a final product. Next, the...
As Democrats try to salvage health care reform, there is one man who above all others will help determine its fate, and he is not Barack Obama or Harry Reid or even a member of Congress. In fact, odds are you've never heard of Alan Frumin, the Senate parliamentarian...
Parliamentarians' loyalty is above all to the institution, however imperfect. When asked if he supports the filibuster and cloture, Dove quoted the advice passed on to him by his predecessor and that he passed on to Frumin: "The rules are perfect and if they're all changed, the rules are...
Watch TIME's video "The Filibuster and You: An Odd Todd Cartoon."
Friends say Lieberman is partly to blame for his isolation and that his fury about 2006 can still get the best of him. "He has a blind spot to his own continuing or lingering anger toward the left," says someone who knows him well. That makes him more confrontational than...