Word: filibusterer
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What both men were trying to avoid was a vote, engineered by Frist and set for this week, that would change Senate procedures to make it impossible for Democrats to continue blocking Bush's judicial appointments by talking them to death. The Democrats have been winning by filibuster--which requires...
At stake is the essence of the Senate: Should the institution maintain the unique culture that the framers of the Constitution envisioned for it, a place where a minority can have its say and even have a shot at winning a battle here and there? "The whole idea of the...
Warner, who has the aquiline look and formal bearing that sometimes seem right out of Henry Clay's era, has made no secret of his discomfort over the fact that he would even have to cast a vote on the filibuster. "I've been here 27 years," he said. "I...
The younger Senators contend that if anybody is trashing the traditions of the institution, it is the Democrats, who are abusing a weapon that earlier generations reserved for only the gravest matters. In the entire 19th century, the filibuster was used only 22 times; now Democrats regularly filibuster dozens of...
For all the idealized Mr. Smith Goes to Washington imagery that the filibuster invokes, its uses have often been much darker. It was, for instance, one of the major means by which white segregationists blocked civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Republicans note that Democrats had a different view of...