Word: filibusterers
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HONEST, ABE! Yes, that really was Senator Strom Thurmond cheering Nelson Mandela below a statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly...
If Clinton was having mixed success with his Cabinet, his stock was sinking even faster with his party on Capitol Hill. Clinton's official supporters, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Dick Gephardt of Missouri, urged members to stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses...
WASHINGTON: It wasn't exactly "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Mitch McConnell needed just a moment's filibuster to kill campaign finance reform in the Senate Thursday, just a few words before Trent Lott summarily removed the issue from the floor.
RAMPANT RESUMANIA Don't politicians love to talk! Take Senators. And their resumes in the Congressional Directory--printed at taxpayers' expense. On average, it takes 14 lines of fine print for each of the 100 to list family, educational pedigrees, military valor, career coups and "distinguished" awards (Republicans tend to...
For the most part, the rest of the old-time liberal coalition is not budging. Last month the N.A.A.C.P. joined with the liberal People for the American Way to organize an antivoucher demonstration in Philadelphia. "The N.A.A.C.P. is out of touch," says Congressman Floyd Flake, a New York Democrat. "The...