Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cloture, only four times (and not since 1927, on a filibuster against creation of a bureau of customs and bureau of prohibition) have the attempts been successful. But last week, for the first time, the Senate got what appeared to be a generally reasonable and workable anti-filibuster rule...
...Senate's new Rule XXII was the personal product of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. As such, it represented a middle way between the Senate's Southerners, who hold with the idea of limitless debate, and Senate liberals, who would impose cloture at the drop of a drawl. The Johnson-sponsored rule will...
...Drop from the old Rule XXII a provision that, in effect, barred cloture on a motion to change the Senate rules...
...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...historic measure of Texan Johnson's genius for maneuver that 16 moderate Southern and border-state Senators joined him in voting for strengthening the Senate's anti-filibuster rule. And Compromiser Johnson was by no means guilty of overstatement when he said, just before the lopsided final vote: "We are perfecting our unity. We are maintaining reason...