http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm1964-Present
June 10, 1964
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate.
The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.
As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.
Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"
Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.
The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive 67th vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the 20th century's towering legislative achievements.
Reference Items:
Graham, Hugh Davis. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Mann, Robert. The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
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No, you are a liar, and terrible at debating since the very concept eludes you. You are not correct in your views simply because they are your views, and you believe in them because you prefer them to alternatives.Ogami said:Because, Parte Due, I can cite actual links and articles and quotes to support my views. All I see from the opposition here is mindless hate.
I certainly am a Bush and Military basher. How many times do I have to shove the distinction between the government and the military, and the USA and its citizens. You know, the most important group in all of this?You're certainly entitled to that hate, but it hasn't won a single argument for any Bush-bashing, military-bashing, America-bashing liberal here. (Or independently thinking moderate or whatever the hell lying liberal Democrats pretend to call themselves.)
I hate to shatter your delusion, but a number of the people whom take a hardline contrary stance to your own hardline stance are not liberals.Ogami said:Of course. Liberals are reasonable people who are open to other points of view. Why didn't I see that?
I counter your claim of the elections reflecting the opinion of the majority with the fact that the elections were rigged. If you do not wish to refute evidence of this, then you must concede your statement as being false.The results of the last three national elections bear out my view as the majority view.
There are plenty of conservatives who also hate Bush. You continuously muddle the lines to make it seem as though if it's a black and white issue, which it isn't.Liberals, and their hate for Bush, are the minority view.
Source?Their mistake is in thinking that their hatred somehow makes up for lack of numbers. It doesn't.
In case you didn't notice, we are accusing each other of them same thing here.I've posted many articles accurately refuting the claims made by the left on this board, and have yet to see one single apology or someone saying they were wrong. That would indicate that the Bush-bashers purposefully ignore anything that doesn't fit their worldview. Shocking!
This is fucking nuts. Name some duals.What's painfully obvious is that morons who create an infinite number of duals to debate me don't somehow increase their cumulative IQ points in the process.
LOL!!!!!!I'm pretty certain I've got 2-3 liberals using a half-dozen duals spouting the same hate week after week. How am I to tell them apart? I can't, and it would be fruitless to try.
I'm not of the left, so you wasted a bit of time typing that up.It's not as if the left hates all military groups. They loved the Soviet military in the past, they loved the North Vietnamese military, the North Korean military, and these days they love their favorite freedom fighters, the Al-Queda military.
Al-Queda is a boogeyman, and that description makes it sound like the Palestinians carried out the attack.The liberal desire to prevent another 9/11 seems to center around understanding Al-Queda and feeling their pain. No thanks.
I'm not a fucking liberal!! I'm a nasty racist, and if I were in power, all illegals would be deported, no anchorbabies would be permitted, Israel would cease to recieve military support, and the US would be fixing its infrastructure and researching alternative energy sources. You know, taking care of the real problems, instead of the made-up problems?Stay out of power and on the sidelines where you belong. No one will miss liberal rule.
-Ogami