Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stay Out. Unruh's enemies are not, of course, all Democrats. Just a couple of weeks ago, in successfully pushing through the legislature a bill to augment Democratic Governor Pat Brown's $3 billion state budget, speaker Unruh took advantage of a quorum-requiring "call of the house" to lock up foot-dragging Republicans overnight in the state capitol; he made the Republicans even madder by offering them the use of his own razor and shower bath if needed. Cried Republican State Chairman Caspar Weinberger, ordinarily a mild-mannered fellow: "These are tactics Stalin, Hitler and other dictators...
...were fresh from the frontier and settled their political squabbles in the ways they knew best-with curses, fists and duels. On one memorable occasion, 30 pistols were whipped out during debate on the floor. "Kicking-Buck" Kilgore of Texas once booted down a locked door to escape a quorum call. "Tim" Campbell of Tammany threw an arm around President Cleveland, who had complained that a bill he favored was unconstitutional, and growled: "What's the Constitution between friends?" Davy Crockett campaigned for the House on the basis of shooting 109 bears in a year (nonsense, scoffed an opponent...
...cancellation of a juicy $20 million Soviet pipe order. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rushed back home from a Lake Como vacation on the eve of the balloting, managed to avoid humiliating defeat only by ordering his Christian Democrats to stay off the floor, thus causing the lack of a quorum. Der Alte's last-ditch maneuver proved his solid support of the U.S., which, unlike most of its allies, attaches great strategic significance to Moscow's pipeline network. But it got Adenauer into trouble at home. The pro-NATO Socialists called the Bundestag boycott dirty pool; the industrialists complained...
...tension and conflict and suspense. By keeping the Senate in session around the clock, the majority tried to wear the filibustering minority down in an ordeal of exhaustion. Cots were set up in the Senate cloakroom, and bleary, rumpled Senators stumbled from them to answer middle-of-the-night quorum calls...
...suggested that Brazil is in for more and worse trouble. So loud was the squabbling in the outback capital of Brasilia in the last session that Congress proved itself incapable of passing legislation aimed at solving Brazil's desperate economic and social problems. It rarely even produced a quorum. Since then, the problems have only grown worse. Last week Finance Minister Miguel Calmon reported that Brazil owes foreign oil suppliers $45 million and cannot pay, and that the trade deficit for the first nine months of 1962 stands at $162 million...