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He conducted the longest filibuster in Senate history in a vain attempt to stop a civil-rights bill (one of many civil-rights laws he opposed).
A sense of grateful relief that the filibuster never materialized and that the budget was finally sent to the president pervades all three papers--they seem to be as glad to be done writing about it as the senators are to be done haggling over it.
This kind of public execution of reform would look terrible, so Lott might try to mitigate a filibuster by offering as a substitute his own phony reform bill . Think of this as a "pod" or replicate version of campaign-finance reform.
Robert Byrd's nearly successful attempt to use his power to filibuster to promote the decapitation by mining companies of mountains in West Virginia.
Senate leaders may eliminate the issue ad provision to overcome a promised filibuster.