Word: filibusterer
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On entering the Senate chamber shortly before 4 p.m. last Wednesday, White House Courier Tim Saunders suddenly became the Invisible Man. Not that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain...
By week's end the more extreme import-curbing proposals were losing steam. This was due less to Reagan's speech than to simple qualms about starting a trade war and perhaps disquieting second thoughts about the protectionist case and the grass-roots support for it. In the House Ways...
Special interests rebuffed by the House will have a second and better shot in the Senate. Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood of Oregon has promised to have "the bill to the President by Christmas," but some colleagues wonder. Only a few months ago, Packwood said he liked the tax code...
Unlike most fledgling suspense novelists, they whitewashed the sex scenes and played up the humdrum life at the office. But these are no ordinary authors, and the lack of a certain spice has not hurt the book's burgeoning sales. Available in bookstores since April, The Double Man, by Democratic...
It was a noisy barrage. As soon as Congress reconvened after its Lincoln's Birthday recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they...