Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft quickly shut off the only threat of an opening-day battle. Nineteen Senators, including four Republicans, had joined in an attempt to adopt an effective anti-filibuster rule. But neither Taft nor any other G.O.P. leader wanted to open the Republican 83rd Congress with a fight. On Taft's motion, the argument was put off until this week, with little chance that the 19, whose chief aim is to prevent Southerners from filibustering civil rights legislation to death, will get anywhere...
...only a few years ago, in fact, that the Republicans made Rule 22 even more vicious. When the late Arthur Vandenberg was president pro tem of the Senate, an occasion arose when it seemed possible that cloture could be invoked, according to the then prevalent interpretation that two-thirds of the Senators could invoke it. Vandenberg, who was enjoying quite a reputation as a liberal in those post-war days, decided that the rule required the votes of two-thirds of the whole Senate...
...Alben Barkley's first acts as vice-president was to reverse Vandenberg's ruling. The Michigan Republican marshalled the Republicans into coalition with the Southerners, and got the 64-vote rule reinstated...
Admitting that any civil rights plank was useless without a change in Rule 22, the Democratic Party last summer pledged itself to fight for a revision. The Southerners, as with the 1948 civil rights plank, quite frankly declared that they were not bound by the party vote. And when the issue came to the Senate Wednesday, every single Democrat from outside the South stuck by the platform...
...Senators Taft and Knowland and the rest of the Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New Jersey, and Governor Warren's replacement for Nixon, Kuchel of California...