filibusters...

[Colonel Sanders]

I'm doing some research on filibusters, I think there was one case in which a filibuster was interupted by senate members flying paper airplanes, has anyone heard of this? If so, could anyone provide any information on this or other interesting filibusters? I already found the longest filibuster. =)

Also, can anyone think of any times when Kansas has appeared in the news?

L J

[kram 2.0]

I believe the longest filibuster was Daniel Webster...correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't he in Senate trying to push back the debate about the validity of the national bank? Don't know about the paper airplane one...pretty interesting though. Can you fill us in on that once you find out?

Thanks.

kram

[tomster2300]

I believe you're correct on the longest filibuster kram. That name sounds correct -- I took my A.P. U.S. History class two years ago though so I could be wrong.

[Colonel Sanders]

According to Fox news, Strom Thurmond holds the record, 24Hr 18min:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90552,00.html

L J

[tomster2300]

According to that article the record was held by Wayne Morse before Thurmond broke it. That was an interesting read, thank you.

[jong2k4]

An interesting filibuster story that I remember from good ol' US History: one senator was filibustering all on her own and didn't have anybody to take over for her; she asked for a bathroom break but that was turned down, so she had some people (friends/staff probably) bring a bucket into the Senate chambers and hold a curtain around her as she did her business. I do not remember the name of the senator, but it must have been in the last few decades or so because there have not been a lot of female senators around before that.

[chapium]

If I remember corrrectly, I believe a filibuster can be broken by a 3/5 vote in the senate. Before it was a 2/3 vote.

[Miz]

Kansas made The O'Reilly Factor a couple of times in the last year.

One was about the brouhaha over Kansas University Professor Dennis Dailey at KU showning porn flicks in his classes. That resulted in State Senator Susan Wagle proposing a huge cut in funding for the university.

The other was the Limon vs Kansas case in which the American Civil Liberties Union is representing Matthew Limon, convicted in 2000 of having sex at age 18 with a 14-year-old boy in Paola. Limon was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison. But had one of the teens been female, the maximum sentence would have been one year and three months in prison.

I'm pretty sure Kansas was in national news in 1861 when it was granted statehood. Well, maybe it only made the Congressional Record, "national news" not being quite the information (or misinformation?) machine that it is today.