Word: filibusterer
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In the first such vote since the Supreme Court decriminalized most abortions in 1973, the House voted 288 to 139 to ban a very rare form of late-term abortion that anti-abortion legislators described as particularly brutal to fetuses. Despite the likelihood of a Senate filibuster and a presidential...
Achtenberg, one of the nation's highest ranking lesbian politicians, is no less controversial: Her appointment by President Clinton to serve as undersecretary of HUD was approved only after Democrats stopped a filibuster by U.S. Sen. Jesse C. Helms (R-N.C.).
The Democrats' dim chances to recapture the Senate next year faded even more when Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, 76, one of the chamber's most liberal members, said he would retire at the end of his current term. He becomes the seventh Demo crat to announce he will step...
It is standard practice for lawmakers from both parties to raise money from industries they regulate. What sets D'Amato apart is his job as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which plans to raise and spend $65 million during this election cycle to help extend Republican dominance of...
Abortion foes expect a string of relatively easy victories this summer on the question of taxpayer-subsidized abortions. Not only do they have public opinion on their side, but they can also insert these provisions into major spending bills that are less likely to face either a filibuster in the...