Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate science pointing to dangers from the unabated release of greenhouse gases.
Lee and Cruz already have bogged things down with Cruz's epic 21-hour floor speech Tuesday and Wednesday.
If the Republicans are really serious about wanting to create jobs, why not host a six-hour floor debate on that?" Follow Laura Dattaro on Twitter: @ldattaro.
While Schumer supports the deal, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is publicly opposed to it and gave an unprecedented eight-hour floor speech yesterday arguing that Dreamers should be protected.
Sprewell surged in the second quarter and Chris Childs in the fourth, and Patrick Ewing, playing his second dominating game in less than 48 hours, floored the Heat with a crushing dunk.
Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia led the Democrats' opposition, and has reserved an hour of floor time on Tuesday.
She pointed to the Los Angeles Unified School District and Johns Hopkins Hospital among employers who had agreed to a $15 an hour wage floor in recent negotiations with SEIU members.
But the Republicans insisted on applying a technicality in the Senate rules that allowed for 30 more hours of floor time after a successful vote to end debate.
In the latest reprise of last year's fierce debate over the health care law, senators crossed rhetorical swords for hours of floor debate.
Each time they saw a place that seemed promising, they went home and spent hours drawing floor plans to see if their furniture would fit.
I returned to the library a few times, regular hours, main floor, tapestry over the mantelpiece, but did not tell my father.
