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Your search for: filibuster AND history


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Books on: filibuster history

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Journal Articles on: filibuster history

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Magazine Articles on: filibuster history

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Newspaper Articles on: filibuster history

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    Repeating Filibuster History
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 28, 2005
    Subjects: 
    Bush, George W.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Repeating Filibuster History. Byline: THE WASHINGTON...the modern, tortured history of the judicial selection...Democrats reliance on filibusters to block nominees is...threatened to thwart filibusters. However, the minority...
     
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    The Marathon of Judges; Putting an End to Democratic Filibusters
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 13, 2003
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Putting an end to Democratic filibusters. Byline: Bill Frist, SPECIAL...to limit the use of the filibuster as to all nominations - a...They would have ended the filibuster as to all matters. The Senates...that have allowed Americas history to unfold differently than...Senate minority has used the filibuster for the first time in history...
     
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    Senate GOP Eyes High Court Strategy; Filibuster Seen Setting Stage for 'Nuclear Option'
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 12, 2003
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...eyes high court strategy; Filibuster seen setting stage for nuclear...nuclear option" if Democrats filibuster a nominee, said several...nuclear option" would stop filibusters through parliamentary procedures...number of times in Senate history. "A Democratic filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee...
     
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    Up-Down Vote Gives Obama 20th 2011 Judicial OK; 11 Republicans Go against Party, Counter Filibuster Tactic
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), May 5, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Judicial candidates--Political aspects, Political parties
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Kentucky Republican, had tried to filibuster a final vote on the nominee...has a more than 200-year history. And that history is not to use the filibuster to defeat a district judge nomination. The filibuster was overcome by a 63-33 vote...
     
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    Require Real Filibusters
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 3, 2010
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...run insurance option. The filibusters increasingly prominent role...scientist who found that filibusters or the threat of filibusters affected 8 percent of major...interest in changing the filibuster rule. Thats partly because...Through most of recent history, the Senate majority could...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: filibuster history

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    Thurmond, Strom
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...for U.S. Senate. In 1957 he staged the longest filibuster in Senate history, speaking for over 24 hours against a civil-rights...in 1997 the longest serving, U.S. senator in history. The posthumous revelation in 2003 that he had...
     
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    Costa Rica
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...divided into seven provinces. History Early History through the Nineteenth Century...participated in the defeat of the filibuster William Walker , who had taken...because of leaf blight. Costa Ricas history of orderly, democratic government...
     
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    Nicaragua
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...into 15 departments and two autonomous regions. History Early History through U.S. Occupation The country probably takes...culminated in the temporary triumph (1855 57) of the filibuster William Walker . After Walkers defeat there was a...
     

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