Unit 10 [Floor Debate]: Stats, Quirks, and Examples

Stats, Quirks, and Examples

Unit 10

Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC--he later became a Republican) holds the record for the longest individual filibuster, talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes against civil rights legislation in 1957.

Other long filibusters include:

SPEAKER	ISSUE	YEAR	TIME
Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY)	Military Funding	1986	23 hours, 30 minutes
Wayne Morse ((I-OR)	Tidelands Oil	1953	22 hours, 26 minutes
Robert LaFollette (R-WI)	Currency	1908	18 hours, 23 minutes
William Proxmire (D-WI)	Public Debt	1981	16 hours, 12 minutes
Huey Long (D-LA)	New Deal Legislation	1935	15 hours, 30 minutes
Alfonse D.Amato (R-NY)	Taxes	1992	15 hours 14 minutes
Robert Byrd (D-WVA)	Civil Rights	1964	14 hours, 13 minutes

Source: Walter J. Oleszek, Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2004), p. 241.

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