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American politician (1917–2010)
Jim Crow laws were created and enforced primarily by white-dominated state and local governments in the post‑Reconstruction American South, enacted by the Democratic Party "Redeemer" legislatures that...
The 1975 Senate change lowering cloture to 60 votes is portrayed in the documents as a driven by multiple senators rather than a single architect. Contemporary accounts and later summaries credit a co...
In 1975 the Senate rewrote cloture practice: it reduced the votes needed to end debate to while preserving a stricter requirement for amendments to the Senate’s Standing Rules. The change emerged from...
Multiple reform efforts have repeatedly reshaped—but not eliminated—the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold: an initial cloture rule was adopted in 1917, the threshold was lowered to 60 votes in 1975 a...
The Anti‑Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was not the work of a single author but the product of a fast‑moving, bipartisan legislative drive in the 99th Congress that produced companion House and Senate bills a...
Senator Robert C. Byrd (D‑WV) was a long‑serving Senate leader and parliamentary expert who in 1985 sponsored what became known as the “Byrd Rule” to curb inclusion of non‑budgetary or “extraneous” it...