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| US Senator Rand Paul Stages 10-Hour |
| US Senator Rand Paul Stages 10-Hour Talkathon Opposing Surveillance
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 21-May-2015
7:47:5 AM |
| White House hopeful Rand Paul theatrically brought the Senate to a standstill Wednesday, delivering a 10-hour, 30-minute speech seeking to end intelligence agency bulk telephone data collection from millions of Americans.
The Republican senator from Kentucky said he launched his filibuster, a talkathon that stops other action in the Senate, to prevent powerful lawmakers from ramming through a two-month extension of the law that would reauthorize the controversial collection of phone data.
"There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now, and I will not let the Patriot Act -- the most unpatriotic of acts -- go unchallenged," Paul said at the start of his speech
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Paul has made reining in government surveillance a key part of his presidential platform.
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