In 2013, the Cruz's filibuster lasted 21 hours 19 minutes against against Obamacare, which expanded Medicaid eligibility. During the speech, Cruz read Dr. Seuss children's classic Green Eggs and Ham.

After nearly 13 hours during which he had only a few short breaks while sympathetic senators took over the talking, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky ended his filibuster of John Brennan's CIA ...

The clock is ticking toward the end of the session on Friday at 6 p.m., so the filibuster could threaten priorities of the Republican-controlled legislature.

At 3:20 p.m. on May 2, Meier stood at his desk and began speaking. He continued until May 4, at 10:20 a.m. In compliance with the rules of a filibuster, he didn’t lean on anything, he said.

Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on the Senate floor in past decades.

Strom Thurmond. In fact, a 1957 article in Time magazine says that Thurmond left the Senate floor about 4 ½ hours into his 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster to use a bathroom. And there’s other ...

As it rolled past 20 hours, ... Sen. Cory Booker's anti-Trump filibuster is now over 20 hours, nearing record. To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the 13News Now app.

The next Democratic-controlled Senate might repeal all this, before enacting a $20-dollar-an-hour national minimum wage, ... (543 hours) filibuster in Senate history. Advertisement.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joked about wanting to pull a Capitol fire alarm to end his fellow senator’s filibuster, which had been ongoing for over 21 hours as of Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Cory Booker ...

A Republican candidate for Senate has spoken continuously for more than 32 hours as a protest against Democratic proposals to end the filibuster in the upper chamber of Congress. Bruce Fenton, who ...

As Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) filibuster-style speech on the Senate floor nears 20 hours, liberals online are cheering for him to break the Senate speaking record currently held by notorious ...