Nov. 19, 2021: After months of wrangling, what’s another few hours?
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If a “New York minute” is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a
“McCarthy minute” — something that drags on and on for hours.
On Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
took to the House floor with a speech designed to delay Democrats’
passage of the Build Back Better package.
This morning, at 5:10 a.m., some 8 hours and 32 minutes later, he
finally stopped talking.
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