MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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A House filibuster like the one Nancy Pelosi gave hasn’t happened in more than a century
By artappraiser on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:42pm |By Amber Phillips @ WashingtonPost.com, Feb. 7
At 10:04 Wednesday morning, House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took the floor for a one-minute speech — and ended up talking for eight hours and 10 minutes.
Pelosi now holds the record for the longest speech on the House floor, historians say. It's certainly the longest speech in a century. Technically, she broke the rules by even seizing the floor that long. The House more or less banned filibusters in the 1890s, said congressional rules expert Joshua Huder at Georgetown University.
Filibusters used to be a frequent thing, but a particularly nasty partisan fight changed that. In the 1890s, the majority party was frustrated that the minority party was holding up negotiations by refusing to provide a quorum [....]
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