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Growney says he will filibuster any motion to rescind.
This was not an isolated incident. At a time when crises a Bosnia and Herzegovina have broken the dikes of non-coercive "agreements" abroad, when domestic problems have reached a critical stage, the Senate minority has conspired to filibuster or delay almost every major piece of legislation proposed by the...
These questions are hardly superfluous--yet they are not being asked in Congress. As the New York Times recently put it, "The Senate minority leader, Robert Dole, seems to be marshaling a filibuster to deny President Clinton a major legislative victory at any cost." At any cost.
The Senate began debate on this issue earlier this month, but many senators are hesitant about doing away with 50 years of labor law, promoting strikes and tipping the scales too far in favor of strikers. A filibuster of the striker replacement act, which seems more and more likely with...
After Democrats and moderate Republicans joined forces to end a Republican filibuster, the Senate voted 60 to 38 to pass White House legislation to reform campaign spending in House and Senate races. Though Democrats agreed to strip the bill of most provisions for public financing of congressional races, the Senate...