Longest Speech House Floor 1909

Minority leader pelosi wraps up record setting floor speech on immigration.

Longest speech house floor 1909.

The democrat spoke for more than eight hours on the house floor wednesday adamant that she would not support any long term budget deal without a commitment from house speaker paul ryan to allow a chamber vote on protecting young undocumented immigrants. Pelosi delivers longest house speech since 1909. On her way returns to her office after a long speech on. That honor belonged to congressman champ clark of missouri who spoke for five hours and 15 minutes.

Reading a note from a colleague pelosi noted shortly after 5 p m. After leader pelosi s speech members completed work on a mortgage bill dealing with consumer. And she did it all while wearing 4 inch high heels. Nancy pelosi ends record breaking speech on house floor.

Nancy pelosi sets record with 8 hour long daca speech on the house floor. In the longest continuous speech in the house since at least 1909. The california democrat spoke for more than 8 hours before yielding the floor. That she had set the record for the longest house speech on record since at least 1909 breaking the record held by former.

It appears that leader pelosi today set the record for the longest continuous speech in the house going back at least to 1909 when champ clark of missouri held the floor for five hours and 15. The previous record for the longest continuous speech was held by then rep. According to the house historian leader pelosi s was the longest ever house floor speech. The house historian s office said pelosi appears to have broken a record set in 1909 by missouri rep.

It was the longest continuous speech since at least 1909. In the process pelosi set the record for the longest continuous speech in house history.