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Throughout the campaign, Thune, along with Frist, President George W. Bush, and Vice President Cheney, frequently accused Daschle of being the "chief obstructionist" of Bush's agenda and charged him with using filibusters to unjustly block confirmation of several of Bush's nominees. The Republican candidate also drove home his strong support ...
Nov 14, 2003 · In response, Senate Democratic leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) accused Bush of having "chosen to politicize these nominations and to raise the level of confrontation within the debate itself."
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Apr 22, 2010 · First, historical lore says that the filibuster was part of the original design of the Senate. Not true. When we scour early Senate history, we discover that the filibuster was created by mistake ...
Apr 5, 2005 · The implicit threat to filibuster, known as "placing a hold" on a particular bill or nominee, is a common tactic to slow or derail a given proposal or individual. By Senate tradition, the identity ...
Feb 2, 2021 · On March 8, 1960, students in New Orleans protest an attempt by U.S. senators to block passage of civil rights legislation through the use of a filibuster. The tactic—which involves talking at ...
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In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds of senators voting to three-fifths of all senators duly chosen and sworn, or 60 of the current 100 senators. Today, filibusters remain a part of Senate practice, although only on legislation. The Senate adopted new precedents in the 2010s to allow a simple ...
May 10, 2003 · By Washington Bureau. PUBLISHED: May 10, 2003 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 21, 2021 at 8:12 a.m. Declaring the process for nominating federal judges “broken,” President Bush on Friday lashed...
