Word: filibusterer
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“Do I have to dance?” Summers asked again with a glint in his eye. “Maybe I should get a filibuster for the next hour so I don’t have to.”
In an effort to break the Democratic filibuster on President Bush's judicial nominees, REPUBLICAN SENATORS like Bill Frist, above, took in cots and blankets to launch a marathon session on the Senate floor. Mark Pryor read from Robert Caro's Master of the Senate; Rick Santorum quoted from Hamlet...
I subscribe to a breaking news email service run by ABC. The idea is that if anything big happens in the news, I’ll be one of the first to hear about it, thanks to an alert sent to my inbox. So last week, one might expect that...
Schumer praised Democrats for their “amazing courage” in carrying out the controversial filibuster of judicial nominee Miguel Estrada, who was being considered for a position on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
To the civilized world, this trickery might seem low-down. But in Texas, cowboy logic rules, and last week’s array of torturous gerrymanders was only the latest in a string of underhanded tactics. This is the same controversy, after all, that inspired the state’s...