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Ensuring the existence of governmental checks and balances is of utmost importance for a healthy political system. To act otherwise would be to jeopardize that which our founding fathers instituted to prevent a dangerous accumulation of power. However, the country is presently poised to neglect past wisdom as Senate Majority...
In a time of such political polarization, the filibuster is more necessary than ever. Though Republicans control the White House and the Capitol, our country is strikingly torn on the most glaring political issues currently confronting legislators. The filibuster is what keeps the voices of half the country in the...
In his column "A New Idea for Democrats: Democracy" [April 11], Joe Klein described the right of the Senate minority to filibuster as "a matter of process rather than substance, a pinhead of a principle most civilians find difficult to understand." I was appalled by that statement because protection of...
This isn't likely to change anytime soon. Congress has been occupied with bills that are high priorities on the minds of the G.O.P. business constituency-a bankruptcy bill that makes it tougher, in many cases, to be absolved of debts, an energy bill that opens the Arctic National Wildlife...
In the meantime, eleven more West European nations and Australia announced that they were withdrawing their ambassadors from Pretoria for "consultations." And in Washington, Congress took its toughest position yet against South Africa's racial policies. Late in the week the House of Representatives voted 380 to 48 for a...