Word: filibusterer
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Such opposition riles Ilir Zherka, executive director of D.C. Vote, a group that advocates for D.C. suffrage. With a majority of Democratic Senators supporting their position, Zherka and D.C. Vote have spent the past few weeks lobbying Republicans to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to prevent a filibuster. "We...
The catalysts for the dispute are several amendments to the Pentagon's $649 billion appropriations bill, which is pending before the Senate this week and next. The White House has been engaged in a full court press to prevent other Republican senators from voting for any one of these amendments...
The problem is so big, tangled and fraught that some House members prefer to let the Senate take the lead. After all, if Senate Republicans could be lured into a filibuster against a climate-change bill, they might hand the Democrats a strong issue for the upcoming presidential campaign. Dingell...
Last week, Republicans’ blind faith in the free market once again trumped a valuable measure to save elderly Americans money on medicine. Despite a similar bill having passed in the House of Representatives, 42 Republican senators blocked by filibuster a proposal to modify a provision of the Medicare...
If McCain is playing up to the right, it's not working all that well. He is still at odds with the conservative base: flexible on immigration, opposed to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and dedicated to preserving the Senate's right to filibuster judicial nominees. "The problem with...