The word "null" is a valid word in written English.
It can be used to describe a number or value that has been nullified or rendered void, or a situation where all possible solutions have been exhausted or rendered ineffective. An example sentence could be: "The judge declared the contract null and void, meaning that it was no longer valid."
Two years after rising to national prominence with a 13-hour talking filibuster against drones, Rand Paul has made another marathon speech on the floor of the US Senate – only this time in a bid to halt the federal government's mass surveillance of Americans' phone records and to derail an extension of the Patriot Act.
A poll released on Thursday by Quinnipiac University showed Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who launched his presidential campaign on Tuesday, leading Clinton by 1 percentage point.
However, such a deal requires the consent of all 100 senators and Kentucky Republican Rand Paul made clear he was opposed.
Rand Paul urged President Obama to declassify 28 additional pages of the 9/11 commission's report on Tuesday, but made clear that he does not intend to exercise his constitutional prerogative as a senator and read the pages on the floor of Congress – yet.
Rand Paul's appearance at Brannon's final rally, on Monday, was as much about the Kentucky senator's 2016 presidential ambitions as the faltering North Carolina primary bid.
Judges described their report of the 'honour' killing in Basra of 17-year-old Rand Abdel-Qader as "an extraordinary piece of journalism of a shocking nature".
Related: Senate mulls USA Freedom and Patriot Acts after Rand Paul speech – live The Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, sought to seize back the initiative in the Senate on Thursday morning after Senator Rand Paul's dramatic 11-hour speech against NSA surveillance ate up an important chunk of remaining time on Wednesday.
Several were looking into allegations that taxpayers had footed more than their share of the bill for a 246m-rand ($21m) "security" upgrade to the president's palatial private homestead, known as Nklandla, in the hills of KwaZulu Natal.
In the middle order, whether Michael Clarke wants to bat at No4 or No5 remains to be seen but, if the top three can score some runs, it makes where he bats a null-and-void issue really.
Chafee's candidacy seems targeted almost directly at Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy record – the Democratic equivalent of those conservative hawks who sought to enter the Republican primary solely to excoriate Rand Paul on the debate stage.
And then there were the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates: Sens. Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Rep. Paul Ryan all voted No – a thousand times no.
