3-7-13 BR

I think he has some guts doing this. Talking for almost thirteen hours while standing would probably be the worst thing in the world. He definitely got his point across. 2- Fillibuster- a political delaying tactic cloture- to close a senate debate by calling for a vote 3. Filibusters have changed a lot in the past 100 years. In 1917, a rule was adopted by the senate to allow a cloture under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. In the 1930s, a senator used filibusting was used to promote Huey Long's liberal policies. In 1957, a filibuster was over 24 hours long. The recent filibuster was almost 13 hours long. Post closure filibusting is no longer allowed as a tactic. The only event that cannot be filibustered is anything related to a budget bill. Before 1996, the rule only applied to the reduction of a budget bill. Since then, it has been modified to anything to do with the bills. 4: 1. Rand Paul's filibuster was the 9th longest 2. 60 members have to vote against the speech to stop it 3. 1841 introduced the first filibuster 4. The word filibuster comes from the Spanish, Dutch, and French languages 5. Senators don't have to address the issue at hand, they can address anything 6. The longest one was over a day long 7. The 21st century has brought a sharp increase in the use of the filibuster 8. Before 1949, 67 senators had to vote for cloture 9. Senator Huey P. Long effectively used the filibuster against any bill that he considered favoritism of the rich over the poor 10. A group of senators supposedly staged at 57-day filibuster to protest the Civil Rights Act of 1964