filibuster

Yesterday something pretty epic happened in the Texas state legislature. We know, already it is hard for you to believe, but we swear it's true. Senator Wendy Davis attempted a 13-hour filibuster to keep one of the most extreme anti-abortion bills in the United States from being voted into law. And this wasn't your average, everyday read-from-the-phone book filibuster, this was a Texas filibuster.

Passions on both sides were riding high as the legislative session approached its close.

The Senator from the State of Kentucky has decided that he really wants to stand up against an appointment that the President wants to make.  Senator Rand Paul has continued an old fashioned filibuster throughout the day today, saying at the start, I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA...