Ted Cruz Begins Filibuster

The junior Senator from Texas, who thinks he’s the senior Senator from Texas, vows to keep talking “until I am no longer able to stand.” Let’s hope, at least, that nature calls. Soon.

He took to the floor armed with a big black binder, thick with papers, presumably to read as he talks.

He began at 2:41, and can talk up until noon tomorrow, when under the Senate rules he would have to stop and the Senate would proceed to vote on ending debate and bringing the spending bill to the floor.

The bill right now includes provisions to defund Obamacare, which Mr. Cruz supports, but under the rules Democrats can strip those provisions out with a majority vote. So Mr. Cruz is trying to block the entire bill — including the parts he supports — in protest.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.