Nancy Pelosi’s filibuster-style speech tops eight hours in bid to force immigration votes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nancy-pelosi%E2%80%99s-filibuster-style-speech-tops-eight-hours-in-bid-to-force-immigration-votes/ar-BBIPjh9?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp ^

[Eleutheria5]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took the rare step Wednesday of giving a marathon speech supporting Democrats’ attempts to legalize the status of young immigrant “dreamers,” in a bid to pressure Republicans to act. Her more than eight-hour speech ranked as the longest given by a member of the House of Representatives in at least a century, possibly ever, focusing on an issue that has dominated the Democratic agenda in recent months. But it also came as her caucus began three days of closed-door meetings to craft a 2018 agenda that can win wider appeal in November’s elections.

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[apocalypto]

Wasted effort by Nancy, and counterproductive. It helped GOP get some more votes. Imagine placing the interest of illegal aliens above those of hardworking Americans.

[Alberta's Child]

It's historic because there's no filibuster in the House of Representatives. That's why nobody really knows if anyone engaged in these bizarre antics in the past.

The record you cite is from the U.S. Senate, not the House of Representatives.

[EinNYC]

Hey—they could always have gotten someone to do a rendition of Day-O using her Botox-taut face as a drum face, to pass the boredom of her droning on and on.

[faithhopecharity]

Nancy must feel just awful being so irrelevant now

[VeniVidiVici]

Pelosi said her grandson, for his birthday, wished he was a different race - brown.

I totally believe that. The white hating Democrats have won another convert.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Proving to all that the Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they do about citizens and the nation.

[Rebelbase]

Is she running an amphetamine drip?

[Balding_Eagle]

She talked for 8 hours without stopping to go to the bathroom?

I find that nearly impossible to believe.

[Ambrosia]

OR the poor grandson gets no attention from Nancy & family, who are focused on brown people, who are illegals. He might enjoy some of that attention, too.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The b*tch cares only about her precious ding dong undocumented democrats, aka illegal aliens.

She couldn’t give a $hit less about true Americans.

[HotKat]

Frankly, I’m impressed with the fact that she physically endured.

[dvan]

"She talked for 8 hours without stopping to go to the bathroom?"

It all depends on DEPENDS!

[redcatcherb412]

"She talked for 8 hours without stopping to go to the bathroom?" It all depends on DEPENDS!

Bet the speakers well at the podium was a bit on the ripe side.

[Yulee]

The House and Senate needs a rule that states that if a member’s speech is not germaine to the subject being discussed, it is not allowed. Wait until there is a discussion about immigration before imposing a filibuster on the House or Senate members and the American public which watches you on CSPAN.

[RetiredTexasVet]

At least she wasn’t out there doing something really stupid.

[Old Grumpy]

Lord have mercy! EIGHT hours of listening to the old hag drone on and on . . . major headache time!

[R_Kangel]

.... Eight Hours? ...... I think that may be the longest she has Ever stood for anything!!! ..... However .... And I am serious .... Powderpuffs, Like Weekend Warriors, Performing tasks like this have a tendency to have serious adverse physical effects .... And she has not been mentally alert and well as of late.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[GraceG]

Her constituent base...

[Eleutheria5]

Catheter. Strom Thurmond used it in his world record filibuster in ‘64.