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.

The “magic minute” is similar, though. The House tradition allows for a leader, like Jeffries, to turn his 60 seconds of ...

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 ...

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 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.

By skirting the Senate parliamentarian’s power to police the boundaries of reconciliation bills, the GOP is putting the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 25-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling challenge to Trump’s agenda ...

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 ...