Longest Senate filibusters

POSTED: 12:38 PM PDT Mar 11, 2013    UPDATED: 09:41 AM PST Mar 07, 2013 

Rand Paul's 13-hour filibuster doesn't come close to the longest talkathon in Senate history.

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The Democrat from Louisiana nicknamed "The Kingfish" wanted mandatory Senate approval for senior officials in President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration, sparking his filibuster in June 1935.

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