Word: filibusterers
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From there, however, the picture becomes murkier, as the bills head to the Senate -- the place where, as Dole puts it, "there's going to be some reality set in." The House will be able to pass the balanced-budget amendment in a matter of hours, for instance, but debate...
The Democratic party is the party that began the fight against fascism in World War II while the Republicans were arguing for isolationism and opposing the Marshall Plan and NATO. The Democratic Party created and passed anti-discrimination legislation beginning in 1964, while current Republican Storm Thurmond, now a leader...
A bill that would limit lawsuits and the amount of damages awarded was killed in the last session by a Democratic filibuster. But many of those opponents are now gone.
The letter notes how often each incumbent voted to bust a filibuster in the last two years. The perfect scorers were all Democrats. The bottom three, all in the GOP minority, were Wyoming Sens. Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop and North Carolina's Jesse Helms.
Just when Democrats thought they had at least one sure election-year issue, Senate Republicans summoned their 1994 weapon of choice -- the filibuster threat -- to shoot down a campaign-finance-reform bill. "The system stinks," majority leader George Mitchell complained after a vote to close debate on the measure failed...