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By threatening a filibuster, Alaska's Senator Mike Gravel was able to kill a less extensive proposal last year. Another fight looms: Gravel and Ted Stevens, Alaska's other Senator, oppose the House bill. At best, the Senate will not be voting for several months, by which time...
Silencing the Senate. In 1977, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd struggled valiantly against a prolonged filibuster by opponents of the Administration's natural gas bill. He finally mustered more than the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture, which should have ended the debate. But opponents craftily offered countless amendments...
Despite the conservative trend and the new combativeness of Republicans, Byrd quickly took charge of the 96th ses sion. "Bobby Byrd has a hammer inside that velvet glove," says Cranston. The man who plays a mean fiddle off-hours displayed some fan cy footwork on the Senate floor last week...
Byrd made his first move shortly after Vice President Mondale finished swearing in the newly elected Senators. The majority leader proposed to invoke cloture by a vote of three-fifths of the Senators in at tendance instead of the currently required 60 votes. He also wanted to eliminate the endless...
It is the era of the strenuous clique and the vociferous claque, of artful pressure groups and willful activists who effectively control many things by veto and filibuster. Factions of all sizes and configurations, alike only in self-service and single-mindedness, tend to dominate virtually every salient issue of...