Word: filibusterer
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WorldCom's misdeeds are so big and brazen--and investor confidence is so fragile--that politicians can no longer afford to treat the accumulating scandals as anomalies in an otherwise healthy system. "The tipping point has been reached," says lobbyist Kenneth Duberstein, who served as chief of staff for Ronald...
Not quite yet. The Senate put through its version of the bill last year, but now Democrats in that chamber must pass the House version so the bill isn't sent to conference, where it might languish. Senate Republicans will try to filibuster that vote, but majority leader Tom Daschle...
Next week, Majority Leader Tom Daschle will begin the war to get campaign finance reform through the Senate. His goal is to pass the same campaign finance bill the House approved last week by a 240-189 margin so the two chambers don't have to go into a House...
When U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada in 1983, troops from six other tiny Caribbean island nations were right behind the Americans. Last week, at a highly contentious International Whaling Commission meeting in London, Grenada and four of its former invaders - Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and...
Senator Trent Lott has hinted at his willingness to filibuster the Democrats' bill. Do you think that will happen - or will Democrats and Republicans reach a compromise on this issue?