Word: filibusterer
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Speaking before an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,500 members of the Newspaper Association of America on the first day of the group's four-day national convention, the President strongly defended his $12 billion economic stimulus bill, which was defeated in Congress last week after a lengthy Republican filibuster...
The plan will be a tough sell for Democrats, who must find $66.7 billion more in cuts to meet last month's congressional budget agreement. Republicans are scornful. "If you like higher taxes, you're going to love this budget," scoffs Senate minority leader Bob Dole, architect of a G.O.P...
PRESIDENT CLINTON NO LONGER HAS AN UNDEFEATED record in Congress. A Republican filibuster in the Senate derailed his $16.3 billion economic stimulus plan, which Democrats claim would create 500,000 jobs. Clinton could count on just over 50 votes to bust the filibuster, well short of the 60 required.
A much dicier showdown, however, is coming this week, when the Senate takes up Clinton's plan for a quick $16 billion spending stimulus to the economy. Again it faces solid Republican opposition (though probably not a filibuster), and this time more conservative Democrats may defect. Clinton planned to get...
In the Senate, the 57 Democrats could not break a Republican filibuster against a voter-registration bill; that would require 60 votes. So they had to weaken the measure. The bill, dubbed "motor voter," would still allow citizens to register when they applied for a driver's license, but the...