Rand Paul filibusters Patriot Act renewal and yields floor after 10.5 hours - Official thread

[specsaregood]

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[Brian4Liberty]

New video from Rand:

 

[jct74]

I'm seeing on twitter that Rand is speaking on the senate floor right now.

 

[tsai3904]

Live: Rand Paul speaking out against Patriot Act on Senate floor

http://www.c-span.org/video/?326084-1/us-senate-debate-trade-promotion-authority&live

 

[jct74]

 

[hillertexas]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?326084-1/us-senate-debate-trade-promotion-authority&live

watching........does anyone know when he began?

 

[nikcers]

It hasn't "happened". It sorta all depends on when leadership decides to bring the patriot act up for a vote.

They really got about a day to try to get all the votes necessary. The NSA is preparing to shutdown as we speak.

The Obama administration says the NSA must begin preparing to end its bulk-telephone-spying program as soon as Friday. NSA will attempt to ensure that any shutdown of the program occurs as close in time as possible to the expiration of the authority, Last week, the House overwhelmingly passed the USA Freedom Act, which would effectively end the NSA's phone dragnet while extending the Patriot Act's three surveillance provisions. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican defense hawks instead prefer a short-term "clean" reauthorization of the authorities. It is unclear if either option has the 60 votes necessary to advance, and the House is due to leave town on Thursday until June.

 

[tsai3904]

does anyone know when he began?

around 1:22 pm ET

Edit: he started at 1:18 pm ET

 

[hillertexas]

What did he say he was doing? I need to know what to post with the link on social media.

EDIT: He posted this on Facebook:

I've just taken the senate floor to begin a filibuster of the Patriot Act renewal. It's time to end the NSA spying! Join me at http://www.randpaul.com

 

[hillertexas]

Drudged!
Emailed [email protected]
Emailed [email protected]

 

[Warlord]

what's he saying? I cant watch live dammit

 

[specsaregood]

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[EBounding]

what's he saying? I cant watch live dammit

Ron Paul might as well be speaking.

There's a rough live transcript on the CSPAN site.

 

[ross11988]

Lets see how far he gets before McConnell tries to stop him

 

[William Tell]

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

what's he saying? I cant watch live dammit

Me neither, my computer is too old to handle the stream lol. It wants to lift off, listening to the fans.

Good to know that the filibuster is on!

 

[tsai3904]

Lets see how far he gets before McConnell tries to stop him

The rule on the floor has the Senate voting as early as 1 am ET Thursday.

 

[nikcers]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?326084-1/us-senate-debate-trade-promotion-authority&live

Can someone who wants on a nsa list link this on his twitter / facebook posts

 

[DonovanJames]

I wonder if the Mitch McConnell stance on wanting full passing until next presidential year was just to contrast Rand's position so much better and then let him on the floor to speak in the first place. Seems like Mitch is paying back his debts.

Speak until he can no longer speak and we all know there is plenty to talk about with the PATRIOT Act

 

[hillertexas]

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