"How about 46 out of 46 votes to defund!"
And put some Dems on the hot seat, like that leftist gun-grabber Joe Manchin and the rest of the phony "moderates"...
Wrong, Joe, it does include mandatory public funding of abortions!
Where's your prolife principles now????
You and Obama lied, babies died!!!
Just looked this up. STrom Thurmond filibustered alone for 24 hrs and 18 min in opposition to the civil rights act.
IT’s interesting that Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin spoke for 16 hours and 12 minutes to stall debate on an increase of the public debt ceiling in 1981.
Proxmire was concerned about the nation’s rising debt level. The bill he wanted to stall action on authorizing a total debt of $1 trillion.
Proxmire held forth from 11 a.m. on Sept. 28 through 10:26 a.m. the following day. And though his fiery speech earned him widespread attention, his marathon filibuster came back to haunt him.
His detractors in the Senate pointed out taxpayers were paying tens of thousands of dollars to keep the chamber open all night for his speech.
You apparently need 60 votes to end a filibuster. The speaker must speak the entire time, and cannot sit down. I don’t know if he can yield to someone else. I would think that he cannot.