Filibustering in the U.S. Senate
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Filibustering in the U.S. Senate By Lauren C. Bell

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Senate, United States (continued )

Rule XXII, 50, 53, 63

Standing Rules of, 10, 15–17, 49, 63

Seventeenth Amendment, 9, 58, 101–102

Smith, Senator Gordon, 123–124

Snowe, Senator Olympia, 123–124

Sparkman, Senator John, 52

Stennis, Senator John, 52

Stupak, Representative Bart, 97

Talent, Senator Jim, 56, 123

technology (influence on filibustering), 98–99

Teller, Senator Henry, 49

Thurmond, Senator Strom, 2, 13, 52, 118–119, 134, 137–138

time horizons (influences on filibustering), 32, 36, 43, 88, 103–104, 110, 114, 145

“tracking”, 24, 117, 138–139

double-tracking, 54–55, 117

multi-tracking, 54, 139

unanimous consent, 12–14, 58, 76, 116

United States v. Ballin (1892), 16–17, 142–143

vanishing quorum, 16–17, 44–45

Wilson, President Woodrow, 43, 49–50

Wyden, Senator Ronald, 123

Young, James Sterling, 41