Just over 25 hours! Wow! On Tue, Apr 1, 2025, 1:12 PM danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sen Smith made it roughly 23.5 hours [a]. Sen. Booker > is already over 24 hours and, in about ten minutes, will > beat out the record holder, Sen. Thurmond's [R-SC] with > his 24 hour, 18 minute, anti civil rights filibuster back > in 1957... > > [a] from a misc movie website: > > "It's interesting to note that in the film, Jefferson Smith's filibuster > lasted > for close to 24 hours. (The last actual mention of the time was a CBS > radio > announcer saying it has lasted 23 hours and 16 minutes, before things lead > into > the climax of the film, with less than nine minutes left before the > credits.)" > > > https://filmschoolrejects.com/could-a-u-s-senator-really-filibuster-for-24-hours-like-mr-smith-8da5f48c402e/ > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CA%2Bvn7HKuUNPgdynaT-p9Gy0O9PpWa8_fEuCVZF_NsAh3yMbB%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
