Sen. Ted Cruz ends 21-hour Obamacare filibuster - New York Post
WEBSep 25, 2013 · Cruz’ hours of speaking now stands as the fourth-longest filibuster — a delaying tactic to prevent the Senate from passing legislation. However, Reid and others disputed that it was a real...
Ted Cruz's Obamacare All-Nighter Ends After 21 Hours
WEBSep 25, 2013 · Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has officially pulled an all-nighter in the U.S. Senate as he advocated for the defunding of Obamacare into the wee hours of the morning.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz's filibuster against Obamacare
WEBSep 25, 2013 · This transcript includes Cruz's remarks until midnight on Sept. 24. It will be updated when the Congressional Record publishes the remainder of his speech.
Government shutdown update: Ted Cruz ends marathon speech - POLITICO
WEBSep 24, 2013 · “This is not a filibuster. This is an agreement that he and I made that he could talk,” Reid said Wednesday. In other words, from the beginning it was all over save for the theatrics. But Cruz...
The Senate’s ‘Talking Filibuster’ Might Rise Again
WEBMar 19, 2021 · The tactic Mr. Biden referred to, sometimes called a talking filibuster, is the kind illustrated in the 1939 movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” in which the title character, portrayed...
Failure of Senate IVF bill underscores filibuster’s chokehold
WEB2 days ago · That is what’s known as a “talking” filibuster, like the one Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz gave in 2013 to oppose the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare or the speech Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders reeled off for eight and a half hours against a tax deal then-Vice President Joe Biden brokered in 2010.
Thanks for the memories, Ted Cruz’s non-filibuster filibuster
WEBSep 25, 2013 · After 21 hours, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz ended his non-filibuster filibuster on the Senate floor. Contrary to some people's belief, Ted Cruz was not filibustering, but merely taking...
Cruz set to filibuster any Democratic attempt to raise debt limit
WEBSep 14, 2021 · Senate conservatives will filibuster any attempt to raise the debt ceiling that they can, closing off one of Democrats’ pathways to avoiding a U.S. default later this fall.
What is the Senate filibuster? And why the calls to change it?
WEBJan 11, 2022 · The filibuster is a 19th-century procedural rule in the Senate that allows any one senator to block or delay action on a bill or other matter by extending debate.
Ted Cruz's Democratic opponent vows to nuke filibuster to pass …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · CV NEWS FEED // Rep. Colin Allred, D-TX, the 2024 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Texas, vowed that if elected he would support an initiative to upend the filibuster in order to pass a pro-abortion law codifying the overturned Roe v.Wade decision nationally.. Allred will square off with incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, on the same day as the presidential election.