Word: filibusterer
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In any other state or municipality, both of these big figures would actually have the legal power to control their own education policy. Yet, for D.C., it’s Congress that controls the budget. And when the usual political leaders failed to support the Democratic Party line, anti-voucher...
With these facts in mind, the justification for keeping vouchers out of the hands of Washington’s urban poor is puzzling. Despite the House’s approval of the bill, Senate Democrats less a few of their ranks and with a few Republicans have vowed to filibuster...
"He has really found his niche," says a friend. "He recognizes you don't have to have the top power seat in the Senate to be extremely powerful." Lott has breathed life into the dormant Senate Rules and Administration Committee, whose chairmanship he got as a consolation prize after being...
WITHDREW. MIGUEL ESTRADA, 41, conservative Washington lawyer and George W. Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals; from the pending nomination, following a bitter two-year battle in the Senate. Democrats had staged a filibuster to thwart the nomination, which they charged was another effort...
Estrada became the first Appeals Court nominee defeated by filibuster.