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The biggest non-Katrina event this week will be the Senate floor vote on the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice. Both sides say the vote will be at least in the high sixties. Unless there is a filibuster, which Democrats say will not occur, he needs only a...
And yet the relatively easy path ahead for his first Supreme Court nominee may be as much an indicator of Bush's weakness as of his strength. His sagging approval ratings, the public displeasure at events in Iraq and his inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest...
Gorbachev did not filibuster with the usual Kremlin excuse that human rights are an internal matter for the Soviet Union and not the business of the U.S. Rather, he discoursed at length about Soviet notions of individual freedom: freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom to secure health care--freedoms...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has made the most public outreach, appearing via video at an event in Louisville where religious leaders argued for approving Bush's judicial nominees, pushing the "nuclear option" to prevent Democrats from filibustering Bush's judicial nominees and speaking on the Senate floor about Terry...
TIME reported on the conflict in the U.S. Senate over abolishing the judicial filibuster [May 30]. The greatness of the U.S. lies in our elected leaders' tradition of deliberation and compromise. That is what separates us from extremist domination by dictators and terrorists. The rules of the Senate may seem...