3 Juillet 2013
#Texas Claims Record #filibuster http://t.co/ugxSMSxyfb Longest in US history is 43 hours #WendyDavis' performance modest in comparison
July 04, 2013
You Call That a Filibuster? Texas Still Claims Record
FORT WORTH, Tex. - State Senator Wendy Davis's exhausting filibuster of at least 11 hours at the Texas Capitol last week turned her into a national political star. Bill Meier's filibuster in the same building - on the same floor, at the same desk - 36 years earlier left him with a stiff back, rubbery legs, a ragged voice and a footnote-size place in history, though few people outside Texas remember.