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Hanging With the Filibuster Pivot

  • Randall Strahan
Published/Copyright: January 3, 2011
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The Forum
From the journal The Forum Volume 9 Issue 4

This essay takes Richard Fenno’s concept of the senatorial career and Keith Krehbiel’s generalization about the importance of the pivotal 60th senator as points of departure for an account of a day spent on Capitol Hill with Senator George LeMieux (R-FL) in July 2010. The goal of the essay is to describe a day in the career of a senator who took full advantage of opportunities presented by being the pivotal senator on a major piece of legislation.

Keywords: Senate; filibuster
Published Online: 2011-1-3

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Introduction
  2. Governing through the Senate
  3. Article
  4. On Being Second: The U. S. Senate in the Separated System
  5. Through the Looking Glass, Darkly: What has Become of the Senate?
  6. Making Laws and Making Points: Senate Governance in an Era of Uncertain Majorities
  7. Polarization, Obstruction, and Governing in the Senate
  8. Legislative Coalitions, Polarization, and the U.S. Senate
  9. Hanging With the Filibuster Pivot
  10. Senate Delegation Dynamics in an Age of Party Polarization
  11. The Electoral Risks of Senate Majority Leadership, or How Tom Daschle Lost and Harry Reid Won
  12. Obstructing Agenda-Setting: Examining Blue Slip Behavior in the Senate
  13. The Past and Future of the Supermajority Senate
  14. What the Filibuster Tells Us About the Senate
  15. Commentary
  16. Unified Budget Accounting in the United States Congress: The Persistence of Government Deficits and Debt, 1967-2010
  17. Review
  18. Review of The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership
  19. A Response to Joseph Cooper's Review of The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership
  20. Review of The Myth of Presidential Representation
  21. Review of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
https://doi.org/10.2202/1540-8884.1482
Keywords for this article
Senate; filibuster

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Introduction
  2. Governing through the Senate
  3. Article
  4. On Being Second: The U. S. Senate in the Separated System
  5. Through the Looking Glass, Darkly: What has Become of the Senate?
  6. Making Laws and Making Points: Senate Governance in an Era of Uncertain Majorities
  7. Polarization, Obstruction, and Governing in the Senate
  8. Legislative Coalitions, Polarization, and the U.S. Senate
  9. Hanging With the Filibuster Pivot
  10. Senate Delegation Dynamics in an Age of Party Polarization
  11. The Electoral Risks of Senate Majority Leadership, or How Tom Daschle Lost and Harry Reid Won
  12. Obstructing Agenda-Setting: Examining Blue Slip Behavior in the Senate
  13. The Past and Future of the Supermajority Senate
  14. What the Filibuster Tells Us About the Senate
  15. Commentary
  16. Unified Budget Accounting in the United States Congress: The Persistence of Government Deficits and Debt, 1967-2010
  17. Review
  18. Review of The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership
  19. A Response to Joseph Cooper's Review of The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership
  20. Review of The Myth of Presidential Representation
  21. Review of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
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