Word: filibusterer
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Republicans have no interest in making things easy for their Democratic usurpers. They plan to offer their own bills and hope to peel off conservative Democrats to form majorities. On contentious measures, Reid will have to muster 60 votes, the number needed in the Senate to cut off a filibuster...
And in the current circumstances, the job would be even worse than it was when Mitchell held it, because the margin is so close. Whichever party gets control in January will have a majority of 51 at most, which means the leader will be at least nine votes short of...
As Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol mentioned when she introduced the CGE’s legislation, the Faculty reached a near consensus last May in support of a comprehensive reform that would have required evaluations for all professors and all TFs. At that meeting...
Even if Johnson ultimately recovers from the congenital blood disorder known as arteriovenous malformation, which required emergency surgery Wednesday night, it now looks highly unlikely that he will healthy by Jan. 4. With Johnson unable to vote, Democrats still have enough to prevail, with 50 votes (including the two independent...
If the Republicans filibuster the organizing resolution and the question drags on into January or even beyond, it presents another truly extraordinary possibility: a chamber with a new Democratic leader, but the existing set of Republican committee chairmen. That is because, until an organizing resolution is passed, incoming Majority Leader...