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.

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.

Rand Paul's pledge to defeat the budget deal fell flat. — -- Sen. Rand Paul staged what he said was a filibuster in an attempt to delay the bipartisan budget deal -– but he only spoke on ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The filibuster is a procedure, not a policy. It serves an important purpose to lengthen debate and to slow legislation in a way that forces the parties to compromise and come to agreement on ...

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 ...