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Clues

  • In which committee was civil rights legislation blocked up by a conservative coalition? (5, 5, 9)
  • What do Cox and McCubbins call a highly unified majority party? (1, 10, 6)
  • What fraction of all filibusters have happened in the last 30 years? (3, 6)
  • Which Senate leader said: 'I am not a king and I have no princes'? (4, 9)
  • Who argues that the Rules Committee quickly transformed 'into an arm of the leadership. It can now be relied on to be a traffic cop that serves the leadership instead of one that serves the chairman of the committee'? (11)
  • Who asserts that an opposition leader 'would be hard put to it to find anyone with a claim to national party leadership superior to his own' in a divided government? (5, 5)
  • Who likens the majority party in the legislative chamber to a coalition government in a parliamentary regime... it takes work to hold the disparate elements of such a coalition together'? (3, 3, 9)
  • Who says ' the Senate majority leader lacks amny of the institutional tools the Speaker of the House possesses. Majorities simply cannot work their will the way they can in the House'? (8)
  • Who says that the House has long been the more highly structured and rules-driven of the two-chambers? (7, 3, 5)
  • Who uses the term filibuster to refer to any set of actions taken by a Senator or group of Senators to 'intentionally delay or prevent any measure, nomination or procedural activity from taking place'? (5, 3, 9)

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