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What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"?

Posted by samzenpus on from the lets-keep-talking dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Sen. Rand Paul held up a vote on the Fast Track Authority for an eleven hour dissertation on the flaws of: the Patriot Act, the replacement the USA Freedom Act, bulk data collection including credit card purchases, the DEA and IRS's use of NSA intel. for "parallel construction", warrant-less GPS bugs on vehicles, as well as the important distinction of a general warrant versus a specific one. "There is a general veil of suspicion that is placed on every American now. Every American is somehow said to be under suspicion because we are collecting the records of every American," Paul said. The questions is what did the "filibuster" really accomplish? The speeches caused a delay in Senate business but it's unclear what larger effect, if any, that will have.

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  1. Re:STANDING OVATION. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    GO RAND :)

    Is this some dialect of BASIC?

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  2. Re:STANDING OVATION. by FranTaylor · · Score: 3, Funny

    he'll be gone soon enough

  3. Re:It showed a lot by FranTaylor · · Score: 1, Funny

    But now that he is president he has changed his tune. Abuse of powers indeed.

    Thanks for this information, I will be sure to avoid voting for him, the next time he runs for president.

  4. Re:STANDING OVATION. by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like Logo to me - instructs the turtle to move in the most recent direction of a length specified by a random natural number.