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Rand Paul's promised debt ceiling filibuster clocks in at just 19 minutes
Source: The Guardian
Rand Paul's promised debt ceiling filibuster clocks in at just 19 minutes
Senator who has twice staged marathon speeches to delay Senate votes declared
he would filibuster on Thursday, but scheduled vote interrupted him
Tom McCarthy in New York
Thursday 29 October 2015 21.46 GMT
Of all the candidates at Wednesday’s Republican debate, Kentucky senator Rand Paul talked the least, with just over six minutes’ speaking time.
He used the time to declare, twice, that on Thursday he would be more long-winded, vowing to take the Senate floor and “filibuster” a spending deal that would raise the debt ceiling.
Paul’s Senate speech, it turned out, lasted not quite 19 minutes. It was never to be a talking filibuster – in which a member of Congress speaks indefinitely to hold up other legislative action – because the spending deal was already headed for a scheduled procedural vote.
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Senator who has twice staged marathon speeches to delay Senate votes declared
he would filibuster on Thursday, but scheduled vote interrupted him
Tom McCarthy in New York
Thursday 29 October 2015 21.46 GMT
Of all the candidates at Wednesday’s Republican debate, Kentucky senator Rand Paul talked the least, with just over six minutes’ speaking time.
He used the time to declare, twice, that on Thursday he would be more long-winded, vowing to take the Senate floor and “filibuster” a spending deal that would raise the debt ceiling.
Paul’s Senate speech, it turned out, lasted not quite 19 minutes. It was never to be a talking filibuster – in which a member of Congress speaks indefinitely to hold up other legislative action – because the spending deal was already headed for a scheduled procedural vote.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/29/rand-pauls-debt-ceiling-filibuster-19-minutes
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