Cruz’s Ode To Bernie Sanders

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The most recent analog to what Ted Cruz is doing on the Senate floor was the nearly nine-hour floor speech Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave in December 2010 to protest the extension of the Bush tax cuts. That wasn’t a filibuster either — notwithstanding the title of the subsequent book version of Sanders’ speech.

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