Word: filibusterer
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That's no idle threat. A Republican filibuster knocked off an earlier version of the bill last year. In addition to McCain, only three Senate Republicans--Thompson, Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania--have joined the 45 Democrats who signed on to this year's model, leaving...
Now Congress has embraced contrition chic. A formal apology for slavery would certainly teach Jeff Davis a thing or two. But would the ghost of John Calhoun materialize in the well of the Senate to filibuster against it? There is a splendid irony in this worldwide rush to repentance. All...
But it won't work. President Clinton needs to remember the math. To pass a law in the Senate, a simple majority is no longer enough. The pervasive use of the filibuster by both parties makes 60 votes the goal for legislative success. Clinton does not have 60 votes in...
"Clinton understands the issue [of domestic violence]--Dole doesn't," Steinem said. "Dole opposed the crime bill so strongly that he led a filibuster against it, and even when it was there, he led a campaign to cut funding by 45 percent."
One would have thought there was brouhaha enough over reports earlier this year that Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, spent nights at the home of lobbyist Ann Eppard. Or that Eppard, a former top staff member for Shuster, still heads up the Pennsylvania Congressman's...