[conservative98]

Longest Senate speech since 1900. - C-Span

[GoCards]

He just went after leadership HARD. wow

[onyx]

Just received in my email, and not sure what this means:
Is Senator Wicker going to stand with Senator Cruz?


Thank you for contacting me regarding your support for defunding and repealing the President's health-care law. I am glad to have the benefit of your views on this issue, and I agree that this massive government overhaul of health care in America should be fully repealed.

The President's health-care law greatly increases the government's role in our health-care system, fails to lower costs, and raises taxes and premiums. The tax increases in this law will cost the American public more than $675 billion over the next ten years. Skyrocketing premiums and co-payments will limit access to doctors for too many Mississippians. I support lower premiums and patients' freedom to choose their providers. I believe in workable solutions that empower patients – not unelected bureaucrats – in their health-care decisions.

Already in the 113th Congress, I have joined my colleagues in introducing numerous bills to repeal or defund all or part of the President's health-care law. I am a co-sponsor of Senator Ted Cruz's bill to prohibit funding for this detrimental law. As a member of the Senate Budget Committee, I offered an amendment during the consideration of the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget that would have defunded the President's health-care law and prevented $1.8 trillion in new spending for its implementation.

My repeal amendment, which was blocked by Senate Democrats, would have prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to implement the 2,700-page law and its 19,000 pages of regulations. These countless rules, mandates and taxes will slow the economy and grow the government, stifling job creation and adding uncertainty to an already fragile economy.

Be assured I will continue to work in Congress to defund and repeal the President's harmful health-care law in its entirety and replace it with meaningful solutions. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can ever assist you.

With best wishes, I am

Sincerely yours,

Roger F. Wicker
U.S. Senate

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Longest Senate speech since 1900. - C-Span

Wow! The crawler said that he isn't allowed to sit down. I guess he's been up all night, and he looks like he just started.

[Hoodat]

Did C-SPAN happen to mention how long Democrat Richard Russell’s speech was in 1964 espousing his opposition to the Civil Rights Act and his support of segregation and Jim Crow?