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Even if enough Republicans join Democrats to kill the amendment, more would be needed to defeat the filibuster that has already been promised.
Speculation turns to whether: 1) conservative senators will be able to filibuster a post-trial censure resolution to death; and 2) Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal committed perjury when he denied peddling nasty stories about Monica Lewinsky to the press.
If McCain holds out for a strong bill, Lott may have no alternative to an old-fashioned filibuster . Supporters of McCain-Feingold will probably need not just 50 votes for victory (with the tie to be broken by Al Gore) but 60 votes to invoke "cloture" and break a filibuster.
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).
The LAT and the NYT both include the threatened filibuster, but less prominently.