Word: filibusterers
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Just how easily popular legislation can become untracked was demonstrated last week by an unedifying battle over the $4.9 billion jobs bill, which was passed by the House two weeks ago. Instead of sailing through the Senate as expected, it has been held up by an amendment supported by the...
Lowell Weicker, Republican Senator from Connecticut, who at one point threatened to filibuster the loan-guarantee bill to death but allows how he now owns "a little Chrysler stock" and "there's a very good chance I'll buy a Chrysler car pretty soon": "Would I vote against...
Few observers expect the measure to get very far without major changes. Illinois Republican Tom Corcoran, a co-sponsor of the proposal, acknowledges that some bills, of his fellow House members have their names on other gas bills, most opposing decontrol. Last week a group of 29 Congressmen announced plans...
Senator Helms carries an are onto the Senate floor, explaining that it is time "to bury the hatchet" and end his five-month filibuster, the longest in American history.
Baker retaliated by using a fleet of 11 military jets (each costing $742 an hour out of the Pentagon's budget) to bring Senators back for the vote and ensure them a quick flight home when it was over. Even Barry Goldwater, who was in an Arizona hospital recuperating...