Word: xxii
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Regardless of the possibly unified opposition to Clark's proposals from the "conservative coalition" and Senate "club", these two groups disagree on Rule XXII, the filibuster rule. If last year's attempt to reduce the majority necessary for ending debate had succeeded, the imminent filibuster over the civil rights bill would not occur, and the strong provisions approved by the House would pass the Senate without significant amendment. If Senator Clark's reforms of the seniority and committee systems had been in effect, the Southerners could not have kept the civil rights bill from coming to a vote last year...
...issue in the current filibuster is the proposal by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson to amend the Senate's Rule XXII, the cloture rule, so that debate in the Senate could be cut off by a three-fifths vote instead of the two-thirds now required. This change would make it easier to stop filibusters; so naturally the Southern Democrats, led by Georgia's Richard Russell, rose up to filibuster against it. With no physical strain imposed upon them, the Southerners could hold out for a long time. Asked how long, Senator Russell said: "Well...
...Mexico's liberal Clinton Anderson tried to amend Senate Rule XXII. He proposed that the rule permit debate to be shut off by three-fifths rather than two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. Georgia's Richard Russell had already served notice that any attempt to change the cloture rule would be met with "an all-out, last-ditch, to-the-end-of-the-road fight." Thereupon the Southern Democrats arose to start talking to death-as they had in previous years-the effort of Northern Democrats...
...ruling required the vote of two-thirds of the Senators present and voting to invoke cloture. In 1949 Rule XXII was amended, making cloture more difficult by raising the necessary number to two-thirds of the entire Senate, whether present...
...President Woodrow Wilson's proposal to arm merchant ships, precipitating a famed presidential denunciation: "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible." Under Wilson's angry urging, the Senate adopted Rule XXII, which provided that cloture could be invoked by two-thirds of the Senators present and voting...