Sen. Rand Paul ends marathon filibuster of John Brennan
Here's an irony the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated: The old-fashioned filibuster — that most archaic of parliamentary tools — is suddenly the rage of the attention-span-challenged social media set. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) created a
A passionate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) conducted an old-fashioned filibuster on the Senate floor Wednesday to halt the nomination of President Barack Obama's CIA director nominee John Brennan. But really, his filibuster was
Rand Paul was right. There, I said it. The Republican senator from Kentucky, whom I've ridiculed as an archconservative kook — because that's basically what he is — was right to call attention to the growing use of drone aircraft in “targeted
Rand Paul says he finally has the answer to the question that launched his marathon filibuster Wednesday on the Senate floor. “Hoo-ray,” the Kentucky Republican said upon being read a brief letter of response from Attorney General Eric Holder during an
Senators from both parties joined the Republican from Kentucky, who opposes John O. Brennan to lead the C.I.A. and said he would “speak until I can no longer speak.”






