Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The modern English form "filibuster" was borrowed in the early 1850s from the Spanish filibustero (lawless plunderer). [3] The term was applied to private military adventurers like William Walker who were then attacking and pillaging Spanish colonies in Central America. [2] Spain lost all its Central American territory in 1821. [4]
Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, Pub. L. 108–27 (text) (2003) Accelerated and extended Bush tax cuts, passed the Senate 51–50. Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Pub. L. 109–171 (text) (2006) Slowed growth in Medicare and Medicaid spending and changed student loan formulas, passed the Senate 51–50.
The freewheeling actions of the filibusters of the 1850s led to the name being applied figuratively later in the North American English language political idiom of the political and legislative delaying act of filibustering in the United States Congress, especially in the upper chamber of the U.S. Senate.
William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary.In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was designed to federally secure and protect the right of Black Americans to vote, and was supported by the NAACP alongside the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. [2] [3] The Act aimed to protect this right by establishing a Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice and a U.S. Civil Rights Commission. [4]
As America shifts into 2025, many changes are coming, But amid a new GOP-led Congress and a presidential inauguration, a few steadfast things remain, like American's money woes, ongoing foreign ...
The entire 14-hour and 50-minute filibuster, as broadcast by C-SPAN. On June 15, 2016, in the wake of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, launched a filibuster in the United States Senate, promising to hold the floor "for as long as I can" or until Congress acts on gun control legislation.
“We're looking at a downsized America,” he said in a November interview with Fox Business. “Three years ago, even 24 months ago, you'd get a mortgage at 4.5%. “Three years ago, even 24 ...