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History Briefing: Filibuster and Cloture |
| Using the filibuster to delay debate or block legislation has a long history. The
term filibuster, from a Dutch word meaning "pirate," became popular in the United
States during the 1850s when it was...
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| https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Fi...
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| 2. Filibuster |
| Using the filibuster to delay debate or block legislation has a long history. The
term filibuster, from a Dutch word meaning "pirate," became popular in the United
States during the 1850s when it was...
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| https://www.senate.gov/reference/Index/Filibuster.htm |
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| 3. About Filibusters and Cloture | Historical Highlights |
| Huey Long Filibusters New Deal Legislation Jun 12-13, 1935 Arrests Compel Senate Quorum
Nov 14, 1942 Wayne Morse Sets Filibuster Record Apr 24-25, 1953 Civil Rights Filibuster
Ended Jun 10, 1964 Fili...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-c...
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| 4. Filibuster and Cloture |
| Using the filibuster to delay or block legislative action has a long history. The
term filibuster—from a Dutch word meaning "pirate"—became popular in the 1850s, when
it was applied to efforts to hol...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing...
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| 5. About Filibusters and Cloture | Historical Overview |
| Whether praised as the protector of political minorities from the tyranny of the majority,
or attacked as a tool of partisan obstruction, the right of unlimited debate in the
Senate, including the fi...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-c...
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| 6. Old-Time Filibuster Revived |
| October 5, 1992 In Frank Capra’s 1939 classic film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
the fictional senator Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, tried to save a boys’
camp. In a real-life imitation ...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/old_time...
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| 7. Howard E. Shuman: Legislative and Administrative Assistant to Senator Paul Douglas |
| "In the Pacific, the Japanese were after my body. Here in the Senate people are after
my soul." Interviewed by Senate Historian Donald Ritchie, Howard Shuman explains Senator
Paul Douglas’ willingnes...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/...
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| 8. Arrests Compel Senate Quorum |
| November 14, 1942 In November 1942, a full-scale civil rights filibuster threatened
to keep the Senate in session until Christmas. For five days, southern senators conducted
a leisurely examination o...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Getting_...
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| 9. Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| The Senate and Civil Rights: Proponents Build a Strategy for Success On February 17,
1964, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield announced the arrival of H.R. 7152, the
controversial civil rights bil...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/civil_rights/st...
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| 10. Filibuster Cartoon, 1928 |
| Cartoon depicting a Senate filibuster by artist John T. McCutcheon, published in the
Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1928. credit: Library of Congress...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/images/cartoon-filibuster-1928-...
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| 11. Huey Long Filibusters |
| June 12-13, 1935 Described as "the most colorful, as well as the most dangerous, man
to engage in American politics," Louisiana's Huey Pierce Long served in the Senate
from 1932 until his assassinati...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Lon...
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| 12. Turning Point |
| August 14, 1962 Where were you during the summer of 1962? The Senate was in Washington,
D.C., in session—all summer long. The crowded legislative agenda of 1962 included
a Kennedy administration prop...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Turning_...
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| 13. Turning Point |
| August 14, 1962 Where were you during the summer of 1962? The Senate was in Washington,
D.C., in session—all summer long. The crowded legislative agenda of 1962 included
a Kennedy administration prop...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-c...
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| 14. Interview with Mike Mansfield (D-MT), April 1963 |
| PDF Related Link: Civil Rights Act of 1964 credit: “ON-THE-RECORD interview with Senate
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield by the Detroit News, the Newark News, the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, and the Washi...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/image/Ci...
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History Briefing: Filibuster and Cloture |
| The cloture rule–Rule 22–is the only formal procedure that Senate rules provide for
breaking a filibuster. A filibuster is an attempt to block or delay Senate action
on a bill or other matter. Under ...
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| https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Cl...
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| 16. Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| The Senate and Civil Rights: Debate and Filibuster When the House of Representatives’
civil rights bill, H.R. 7152, became the Senate’s pending business on March 26, 1964,
Senator Richard Russell of ...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/civil_rights/fi...
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| 17. Arrests Compel Senate Quorum |
| November 14, 1942 In November 1942, a full-scale civil rights filibuster threatened
to keep the Senate in session until Christmas. For five days, southern senators conducted
a leisurely examination o...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-c...
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| 18. Alfonse D'Amato's Old-Time Filibuster |
| October 5, 1992 In Frank Capra’s 1939 classic film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
the fictional senator Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, tried to save a boys’
camp. In a real-life imitation ...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-c...
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| 19. The Senate Compels Attendance to End a Filibuster |
| February 24, 1988 On February 23, 1988, Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd decided the
time had come to end a filibuster on Senate campaign finance reform. A year earlier,
in the first session of the 100...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/officers-staff/sergeant-at-arms...
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| 20. Howard E. Shuman: Legislative and Administrative Assistant to Senator Paul Douglas |
| “Punch that button three times. Let's pretend I'm a senator." Howard Shuman describes
a defeated Senator Paul Douglas in 1956, after an unsuccessful attempt to discharge
the civil rights bill from th...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/...
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| 21. Judiciary |
| Article III of the Constitution provides that there shall be one Supreme Court and
such inferior courts as Congress may "ordain and establish." The Judiciary Act of
1789 formally established the Supr...
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| https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Ju...
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| 22. Charles Ferris: Staff Director, Senate Democratic Policy Committee (1963-1977) |
| “Around the clock sessions penalize the wrong people.” Charles Ferris describes the
anxiety of the Johnson administration over Mike Mansfield’s approach to dealing with
the 1964 filibuster of the civ...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/...
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| 23. Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment |
| October 1, 1968 In June 1968, Chief Justice Earl Warren informed President Lyndon
Johnson that he planned to retire from the Supreme Court. Concern that Richard Nixon
might win the presidency later t...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/nominations/f...
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| 24. Huey Long Filibusters New Deal Legislation |
| June 12-13, 1935 Described as "the most colorful, as well as the most dangerous, man
to engage in American politics," Louisiana's Huey Pierce Long served in the Senate
from 1932 until his assassinati...
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| https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-c...
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| 25. Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment |
| October 1, 1968 In June 1968, Chief Justice Earl Warren informed President Lyndon
Johnson that he planned to retire from the Supreme Court. Concern that Richard Nixon
might win the presidency later t...
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| https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Filibust...
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