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[Title] => Longest filibuster: 24 hours
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If you thought Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s filibuster last Tuesday was frustrating for holding up the congressional canvass for about seven hours, he was nowhere near the unofficial world record.
The longest known filibuster by an individual was made by the late US senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to keep the US Senate from voting on a civil rights bill in August 1957.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => Osmeña hits back at Boncodin
[Summary] => Sen. Sergio Osmeña III lashed yesterday at Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin for complaining of the P6 million he wasted in his two-day filibuster "while inserting P13 billion in pork barrel" in the 2002 national budget.
"She is a hypocrite! She should look at her own house first!" Osmeña said sharply.
He argued that nothing was wasted when he filibustered contrary to Boncodin’s claim that the government lost P6 million.
The filibuster prevented the Senate from constituting its 37 standing committees.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-15 00:00:00
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If you thought Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s filibuster last Tuesday was frustrating for holding up the congressional canvass for about seven hours, he was nowhere near the unofficial world record.
The longest known filibuster by an individual was made by the late US senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to keep the US Senate from voting on a civil rights bill in August 1957.
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[Title] => Osmeña hits back at Boncodin
[Summary] => Sen. Sergio Osmeña III lashed yesterday at Budget Secretary Emilia Boncodin for complaining of the P6 million he wasted in his two-day filibuster "while inserting P13 billion in pork barrel" in the 2002 national budget.
"She is a hypocrite! She should look at her own house first!" Osmeña said sharply.
He argued that nothing was wasted when he filibustered contrary to Boncodin’s claim that the government lost P6 million.
The filibuster prevented the Senate from constituting its 37 standing committees.
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August 15, 2001 - 12:00am
