As Sen. Joe Lieberman threatens to filibuster the Senate health-care bill, The Daily Beast looks back on obstructionism’s greatest hits. From presumed poisonings and Roquefort salad dressing recipes to public urination and the 15 hours devoted to saving a typewriter company, the strange and twisted history of the Senate filibuster.
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Robert La Follette, 1908
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Huey Long, 1935
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Wayne Morse, 1953
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Strom Thurmond, 1957
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Robert Byrd, 1964
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Ernest F. Hollings, 1968
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William Proxmire, 1981
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Jesse Helms, 1983
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Alfonse D'Amato, 1992
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