Word: filibusterer
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John McCain's crusade for campaign-finance reform has attracted plenty of well-wishers over the years, but his Republican colleagues in the Senate have not often been among them. His attempt to get the bill past a G.O.P. filibuster in 1999 set off one of the nastiest Senate confrontations...
George W. Bush says he won't veto it. Phil Gramm says he won't filibuster it. Trent Lott says he wants a final vote on it Thursday night. And Tom Daschle says it's got a very good shot.
Sitting behind the wheel of his Lincoln, wearing wraparound shades and a deep melanoma scar on his face, John McCain looks like a B-movie hitman. As a matter of fact, he is trying to kill something: Washington's seamy money culture. The Arizona Senator has just finished an event...
John McCain's crusade for campaign finance reform has attracted plenty of well-wishers over the years, but his Republican colleagues in the Senate have not often been among them. His attempt to get the bill past a GOP filibuster in 1999 set off one of the nastiest Senate confrontations...
After years of butting up against a Mitch McConnell filibuster in a Republican-dominated Senate, the prickly conservative from Arizona and the fighting progressive from Wisconsin have a 50-50 Senate, two weeks of floor debate and their best chance of passing their soft-money ban in years. ("Soft money...