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Silent Filibuster. As a sometime Senate talk champion, Oregon's Morse fittingly started the filibuster off fortnight ago, getting the floor and holding it for two rambling days. Another day was spent in constant calls for quorum, in which only six minutes were spent on debate. In frantic attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota...
...clock shadow. I feel that I have lost my lipstick too ..."At that point, Rhode Island's John Pastore, floor manager of the satellite bill, asked whether she would yield so he could speak. Suspecting some parliamentary maneuver, she refused, instead called for a quorum. During the quorum call, Pastore walked over to the lady and whispered: "I was just going to say you are charming and lovely even without lipstick." Next day the battle grew bitter. Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, chairman of the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, hurled at Filibusterer Kefauver one of those windy insults...
...member of the council also moved that HCUA appropriate $25 in support of this Friday's elephant race, but the motion failed because of lack of a quorum...
...Room in 1836 and had become a political cause celebre (an anti-Jackson cartoon implying frivolity in high places was titled "The Celeste-al Cabinet''). Four years later, the sensational Fanny Elssler, the great European ballerina, was so popular in Washington that Congress, unable to reach a quorum when she performed, was forced to adjourn so that the members could watch her dance...
...endorsement of several other candidates including Neil Staebler, father of a former executive committee member and a recent Harvard visitor, for U.S. Congress from Michigan. However, so many YDCHR members left the meeting early that the proceedings had to be called to a halt for want of a quorum...