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D’Amato, testifying before a federal grand jury, swore he knew nothing. “I’m a wonderful target,” D’Amato suggests, recounting the feuds that have marked his career. “Maybe it’s my ...
Oct 5, 2015 · Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.) staged the second-longest solo filibuster in Senate history on this day in 1992. His dusk-to-dawn talkathon was the first such nonstop event since the Senate ...
D'Amato is remembered for presenting a poster of a "Taxasaurus Rex", which he then stabbed with an oversized pencil. D'Amato voted in favor of the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday and the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
Mar 3, 1996 · A United States Senator was once considered retarded -- this is D'Amato's Horatio Alger story. Being held back is a grand theme of his progress.
Oct 5, 1992 · On this day in 1992, Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.) staged the second-longest solo filibuster in Senate history. D’Amato’s dusk-to-dawn talkathon was the first such nonstop event since the ...
Aug 6, 1995 · Al's story, in synopsis, is all about a cross-eyed boy who was picked on and made fun of and then grew up and became a U.S. senator and now it's time to pay back all those nasties. The...
Oct 5, 2018 · On this day in 1992, Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato’s Long Island accent rang through the Senate chamber as part of a 15-hour-and-14-minute filibuster. The New York Republican, who said he was was...
