Senator Cruz Continues Floor Speech on Senate Floor - Procedural Vote on CR Later Today

UPDATE: Senator Cruz held the floor for 21 hours. Technically, his speech was not a filibuster since he was not delaying action on a bill and thus, was required to stop speaking before voting commenced on the continuing resolution on procedure.

Watch on C-Span2 - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) continues to speak [started at 2:41pm ET on Tuesday] on the Senate floor about his opposition to the ACA and why he wants to block the continuing resolution. He stated he intends to talk “until I am no longer able to stand.” Throughout the evening he responded to questions from fellow opponents of Obamacare, such as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), as well as Democratic supporters of the health law, Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). Read More......

Why Rand Paul's 13-Hour Filibuster Matters

WASHINGTON EXAMINER by Timothy P. Carney, Senior Political Columnist (via Fox Nation) - What did Rand Paul accomplish last night? ✧ Besides delaying for a day the vote on President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, did Sen. Rand Paul accomplish anything besides “blowing up Twitter,” as his cohort Ted Cruz put it? He certainly did. How much he accomplished will be determined, but here are some places to look: [Abreviated] ✧ He got the major media talking; he got many Republicans to express objections to extrajudicial drone killings; he made a conservative case for limiting war powers; he made a libertarian outreach to the anti-war Left; he exposed the craven partisanship of the Democrats [with a few exceptions including Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)] and; he made himself a major Republican figure. Read more at Fox Nation...

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