ACTIONS & defenses (Law), LYNCHING, APOLOGIZING, VIGILANCE committees, SEGREGATION, UNITED States legislators, UNITED States -- Politics & government, SOUTHERN United States history, CRIMES against civil rights workers, MURDER victims, MURDER, and CIVIL rights

The article discusses how, after decades, the U.S. Senate at last says sorry for its part segregation. From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 people, 3446 of them black, were killed by lynch mobs, according to Tuskegee University records. The actual number was probably much higher. Though states rarely prosecuted white men for killing blacks, there was never a federal law against lynching. Nearly 200 pieces of anti-lynching legislation were proposed, with support from seven different presidents, and three anti-lynching bills made it through the House. But each time a bill was introduced in the Senate, southern conservatives used their filibuster powers to defend states' rights. The apology came on the same day that saw the beginning of jury selection for the new trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Klansman charged with murdering three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964. June also saw a belated autopsy of the body of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old Chicagoan who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955. Months after his killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, had been acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury, they admitted their guilt. Many argue that the country is obliged to look at these cases before it can move forward, particularly in the Deep South. But these are probably the last of the landmark civil-rights trials.

UNITED States -- Politics & government and ELECTIONS

Reflects on the new Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of the Republican victory, winning a majority of seats in Congress in the November 1994 elections. How Newt Gingrich, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, wants to pull the reins of policy to the right; His `Contract with America,' the Republican agenda for next year; Balanced-budget amendment; Welfare reform; Democratic despair and sense of despondency in the White House.

TAX cuts, UNITED States -- Politics & government, POLITICAL parties, and CRIMINAL law

Speculates on the possibility that Republicans will win control of the United States House of Representatives after 1994 election on November 8. Comments on what the House under Speaker Newt Gingrich would be like; Need for U.S. President Bill Clinton to bow and scrape before House Republicans for passing the crime bill; Republican victories in Congress over the summer of 1994; Proposals dealing with welfare reform, tort reform, term limits, a balanced-budget amendment and tax cuts, unveiled by Gingrich and his House Republican candidates to be voted on in the first 100 days of the next Congress; Question whether a Gingrich-controlled House would cooperate with the Clinton administration.

UNITED States -- Politics & government and ELECTIONS

Looks at the impact of changes in the balance of American political power, and suggests that the possibility of change will make mid-term congressional elections in November, 1994 intriguing. Voter turnout; Impact of mid-term elections on the House and the Senate; Most vulnerable Senate seats; Democrat and Republican share of the Senate; Suggestion that even substantial losses in the Senate and the House might work to President Bill Clinton's advantage in the second half of his first term.

ELECTIONS -- United States, UNITED States -- Politics & government, and ELECTIONS

Discusses the November 1994 election in the United States where, despite much change, Democrats are sticking with more of the same. Republican choices a reflection of the party's tilt to the right and to the South (except for Robert Dole, all its leaders are Reaganites from below the Mason-Dixon line); House speaker Newt Gingrich's views.

ECONOMIC policy, CONFERENCES & conventions, ECONOMICS, GOVERNORS -- Congresses, UNITED States -- Politics & government, UNITED States, and POLITICAL science

Recounts a meeting of Republican governors in Phoenix, Arizona in 1993. Up-beat mood following wins in two senator's races, mayoral contests in Los Angeles and New York and two governorships; Republicans in danger of underestimating the competition; President Bill Clinton notching up notable successes; Growing economy could produce a feel-good factor helpful to Democrats at the voting booth; Dangers of reinventing Reaganomics; Main opponent is the micromanaging congress.

FILIBUSTERS (Political science), CLOTURE, UNITED States -- Politics & government, NOMINATIONS for office, and HISTORY

The article discusses the filibuster. In the 1960s, a handful of southern senators routinely managed to block civil-rights bills. They did this thanks to the filibuster, a Senate curiosity that allows a minority to slow down--or indeed kill--a law by refusing to close off debate. Filibustering senators have been known to recite recipes or read, for hours, from the telephone book. The only way to stop a filibuster is to muster enough votes to "invoke cloture" and end debate. Today, the majority can shut off debate by getting 60 senators to vote for cloture; until 1975, the threshold was 67 votes. Thanks to the filibuster, the Senate does not operate by majority rule--though there are a few items, such as budget resolutions, that are safe from the device. The Senate operated without a cloture rule from 1806 to 1917, when it was introduced at the urging of Woodrow Wilson, who was furious that a handful of senators were preventing him from arming American merchantmen against German submarines. There is a difference between the more common legislative filibuster and the judicial filibuster at the heart of the current showdown. Legislative filibusters are used to force the majority to reshape laws. But a filibuster over a nominee is a zero-sum game: you cannot change the shape of a person. Also, with the legislative filibuster, the Senate is frustrating its own will; with a judicial one, the minority is interfering with two other branches of government, the executive and the judicial. Before George Bush's election in 2000, only one judicial nominee had ever been successfully filibustered. Ten of Mr Bush's judges were filibustered in his first term. The judicial nominees of his father and Bill Clinton were blocked more often, but were thwarted by other tactics, such as keeping their nominations buried in committee.

CORRUPTION, HUMAN rights -- United States, UNITED States -- Politics & government, LEGISLATIVE bills -- United States, and LEGISLATIVE resolutions

The article discusses the approach of U.S. president Donald Trump's administration towards human rights and corruption. Topics mention including the Executive Order 13818 signed by the U.S. president, Global Magnitsky Act also known as GLOMAG passed by the Congress in 2016 and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

UNITED States federal budget and UNITED States -- Politics & government

Explains how the Republican-controlled 104th Congress will be affected by the budget issue. Roles of prospective chairmen of Congress' budget committees, Pete Domenici (New Mexico) in the Senate and John Kasich (Ohio) in the House; The two men and their similarities.

ELECTIONS -- United States, UNITED States -- Politics & government, and VOTING

This article analyses various political complications that could arise immediately after the mid-term elections in the U.S. This year's election is to decide which party will control the new Congress. The Democrats have held a one-seat majority in the upper chamber ever since politician Jim Jeffords defected from the Republicans in May 2001 to become an independent. If the Republicans can get 50 seats they can retake control, because the deciding vote lies with the vice-president Richard Cheney. There is now a special election to fill the remainder of the term. If the Republican candidate, Jim Talent, wins, he can take his seat immediately. The same, more or less, applies to Minnesota, where Governor Jesse Ventura looks likely to appoint whoever wins on November 5th to the seat immediately, although he is now in a strop with the Democrats.

EMIGRATION & immigration, UNITED States, IMMIGRATION law, UNITED States -- Politics & government, LEGISLATIVE bills, and LEGISLATIVE resolutions

The article offers information about the DREAM Act. Topics mention including the original DREAMER Tereza Lee, introduction of the legislative bill in the congress and issuing of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which provides temporary and residency permits of the undocumented immigrants.

UNITED States -- Politics & government, ETHICS, and POLITICAL science

Opinion. Discusses the reelection of Newt Gingrich as the Speaker of theUnited States House of Representatives. The close nature of the election; Ethics violations; Possible punishments once all the information is aired; The expected loss of power for Gingrich in Congress; Benefits for President Bill Clinton; The danger of counting Gingrich completely out.