Word: filibusterers
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At first one wondered if Florida's dysfunctional political-and-judicial world would manage to get it going in the first place. The state supreme court directed Judge Sauls--whose ruling they had just trashed--to oversee the recount, but Sauls, perhaps smarting from press reports about his previous battles...
The bill passed the House in Sept. 1999 but was been stopped by a filibuster in the Senate.
Can I dis the sainted Jim Lehrer? Each question is an invitation to filibuster. All the questions are softballs that allow each candidate to go on autopilot. It's great that he's sticking to substance instead of tactics, but couldn't the questions have some focus? And he could...
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill that could make the living for terminally ill patients much more painful. Grossly misnamed the "Pain Relief Promotion Act," the bill, which passed the House last year, would make it a federal crime for any doctor to prescribe morphine or...
But any talk of retribution doesn't mean that the Republican message of alarm wasn't getting through to the Bush plane. Before the day was over, it was Bush who was having to reinvent himself, after nearly four straight weeks of playing sloppy defense. He abandoned his debate filibuster...