DEMOCRATS VOW SENATE FILIBUSTER TO BLOCK PROBE.Byline: Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire Senate Democrats vowed Tuesday to block continuation of a special panel's probe in the Whitewater case, branding the investigation a "blatantly partisan" effort to smear smear (smer) a specimen for microscopic study prepared by spreading the material across the slide. Pap smear , Papanicolaou smear see under test. President Clinton in an election year. Senate authority to carry on the investigation will expire Thursday. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N R-N Raion (Russian, district; used in postal addresses) .Y., chairman of the investigative committee, is asking the Senate to extend the panel's authority indefinitely and provide an additional $600,000 to pay for it. The panel, now in the 20th month of the inquiry, already has spent $1.35 million. In response to Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle's pledge to filibuster filibuster, term used to designate obstructionist tactics in legislative assemblies. It has particular reference to the U.S. Senate, where the tradition of unlimited debate is very strong. It was not until 1917 that the Senate provided for cloture (i.e. the request for an extension "for as long as it takes," D'Amato said: "If the Democrats want to filibuster, they have every right to do it. But then let the American people An American people may be:
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