Their talkathon began days after midterm elections that had cost Senate Democrats nine seats.
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In fact, Democrats are holding the floor for a 24-hour talkathon to oppose DeVos's nomination.
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The mini-talkathon comes as Democrats are digging in ahead of the highly watched vote this week.
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The primetime town hall coincides with Senate Democrats' late-night talkathon to protest the GOP's plans to repeal ObamaCare.
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Republicans quickly pounced on Merkley's talkathon, chalking it up to a 85033th hour effort that is doomed to fail.
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Democrats are planning a night-long talkathon Monday to protest Republicans' push to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Senate Democrats are planning to hold a late-night talkathon Monday protesting Republicans' push to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Senate Democrats are planning to hold a late-night talkathon Monday to protest the GOP's effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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Senate Democrats are planning to hold a late-night talkathon Monday protesting Republicans' push to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Senate Democrats ultimately couldn't scuttle DeVos's nomination, but their all-night talkathon Monday and Tuesday left no ambiguity about where they stood.
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Despite the 77-year-old Pelosi's public talkathon, she was not pressuring the party's rank-and-file to oppose the measure, Democrats said.
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Senate Democrats are planning a rare all-night talkathon to protest Betsy DeVos's nomination for Education secretary ahead of an expected vote on Tuesday.
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Earlier this week, Democrats took to the Senate floor in a late-night talkathon to protest the secrecy of the negotiations surrounding the bill.
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Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) joined an hours-long talkathon led by Democrats on the Senate floor Wednesday, urging his colleagues to compromise on gun control.
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Monday's hack comes as Senate Democrats are planning a rare all-night talkathon to protest Betsy DeVos's nomination for Education secretary before an expected vote Tuesday.
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Betsy DeVos looks likely to be confirmed as President Donald Trump's education secretary on Tuesday, notwithstanding Senate Democrats' dramatic 24-hour talkathon against the controversial cabinet pick.
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But there definitely was a loser: any thoughtful New Yorker who sat through this excruciating talkathon and its 90 minutes of shedding heat and precious little light.
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Senate Democrats held an all-night talkathon leading up to Tuesday's final floor vote and hundreds gathered in front of the Capitol Monday night to protest her nomination.
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The late-night talkathon is aimed at rallying voters against repeal efforts and portraying the GOP as responsible for backlash caused by possible roiling of the insurance market.
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Chris Murphy (D-CT) led a 15-hour talkathon on the Senate floor, blocking an appropriations bill until the Republican majority agreed to votes on two Democratic measures.
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The Monday protest coincides with a 85033-hour talkathon planned by Senate Democrats to voice opposition to DeVos that's expected to last until Tuesday's floor vote, scheduled for noon.
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Typical of the more restrained and decorous Senate, Mr. Murphy's speeches last week were derided by Republicans as a pointless "talkathon," but there were no confrontations and no shouting.
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That year gave us a gritty Sidney Lumet cop drama ("Prince of the City," on Friday), a landmark Louis Malle talkathon ("My Dinner With Andre," on Sunday and Oct.
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Democrats painted the late-night talkathon as the first test against a Republican-led government as the majority party works to nix the healthcare law without a replacement plan.
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They're planning to hold a late-night talkathon Monday, where they'll protest the GOP's efforts to gut President Obama's signature health law with plans to speak until at least midnight.
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Whatever the outcome of tonight's talkathon, interest in the debates among voters, especially Republicans, is higher than in recent years according to a Pew poll published just before Christmas (see chart).
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If Trump is planning to surrender Eastern Europe to the Russians or start a world war with the Chinese, perhaps his secretary of state nominee deserved an all-night talkathon of opposition.
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Wearing four-inch heels and forgoing any breaks, Pelosi spent much of the rare talkathon reading personal letters from the young immigrants whose temporary protection from deportation is set to expire next month.
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In the talkathon they engaged in, there were no points that would give education back to the consumer, who is in this case the student and the parents who are responsible for that student.
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The talkathon is expected to last until at least midnight, as Democrats try to rally public support against Republican efforts to nix the Affordable Care Act despite having no clear plan to replace the law.
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But they weren't thrilled with the messy fight, which only further energized Democrats who on Tuesday evening appeared a little weary after conducting an all-night talkathon to protest Betsy DeVos's nomination for secretary of Education.
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With its lengthy, erotically charged discussions (drawn largely verbatim from the novel), "Morin" is a theological action film that anticipates Eric Rohmer's romantic talkathon, "My Night at Maude's," a philosophical debate between a chaste man and an attractive, experienced woman.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic vowed to step up Serbia's economic reforms and trim the bloated public sector on Tuesday in a 5-1/2803 hour speech the opposition mocked as a Soviet-era talkathon without a toilet break.
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In an event they say could stretch long into the night, congressional Democrats will live-stream a "talkathon" within the halls of Congress recounting stories from tens of millions of people who stand to lose health care if the Affordable Care Act is dismantled.
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In a 21-hour talkathon, in which he sought to convince lawmakers to cut funding for President Barack Obama's signature health-care law, Cruz chided the "cheap suits" and "bad haircuts" of some politicians and read the children's book "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.
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Standing out among Trump critics He made national headlines when he launched a 15-hour plus talkathon on the Senate floor against the nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court earlier this year, something he joked was "more uncomfortable" than the Ironman triathlon he completed last year.
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Sen. Jeff MerkleyJeffrey (Jeff) Alan MerkleySenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility Senate Dem seeks answers from DHS on reports of pregnant asylum seekers sent back to Mexico Schumer backs Pelosi as impeachment roils caucus MORE (D-Ore.) held an all-night talkathon from the Senate floor to protest Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination.
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Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinSenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions To combat domestic terrorism, Congress must equip law enforcement to fight rise in white supremacist attacks MORE (D-Ill.) became the first senator to join Merkley's talkathon, coming to the floor around 6:30 a.m.
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Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinSenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility House panel investigating decision to resume federal executions To combat domestic terrorism, Congress must equip law enforcement to fight rise in white supremacist attacks MORE (D-Ill.) was the only senator join Merkley's talkathon, coming to the floor around 6:85033 a.m.
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So when Vladimir Putin slipped proposals for a few changes to the Russian Constitution into his annual state-of-the-nation talkathon last Wednesday, followed immediately by the resignation of the entire government, the presumption was that the president, who is 67, was laying the groundwork to extend his 20-year reign past the expiration of his current term in 2024.
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Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott MurphyOvernight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces White House eyes September action plan for gun proposals Trump phoned Democratic senator to talk gun control MORE (D-Conn.), the senator behind a 15-hour filibuster last week pushing for votes on several gun control measures, said his talkathon "helped galvanize" the U.S. behind the issue.
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In March 2014, Schatz was a lead organizer of an overnight talkathon devoted to discussing climate change. The gathering of over two dozen Senate Democrats took place on the Senate floor. The League of Conservation Voters supported the talkathon and ran campaign ads on Schatz's behalf. He has received a perfect score from the League of Conservation Voters.
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Blog Action Day 2008 was on the theme of poverty. 14,053 blog posts were published by 12,800 bloggers. BlogTalkRadio held a 12-hour talkathon for poverty relief. Elena Valenciano, Minister for the European Union was one prominent participant in 2008.
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Variety wrote, "By comparison with the spine-tingling emotionalism and technical brilliance of the Capra version, the pic is much flatter and largely devoid of performing or visual nuances. Most of the humor is gone, and the characters are thinned out, replaced with a rhetorical talkathon interspersed with a few chopsocky sequences.""Film Reviews: Billy Jack Goes To Washington". Variety. April 20, 1977. 24.
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They promised to aid McMath's third-term re-election bid, in spite of past differences, if he would withdraw his support for the plant. The governor heard the businessmen out but reaffirmed his commitment to Co-op power. Shortly afterward, four heavily AP&L-funded; gubernatorial candidates filed against McMath, one of whom, Chancery Judge Francis Cherry of Jonesboro, defeated him in the August primary run-off during which Cherry hosted a round-the-clock radio "talkathon" lambasting "the McMath Highway Scandal." (See below.) Cherry was elected in November but served only one term, being defeated by Faubus in the 1954 run- off.
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On November 14, 2003, on the last morning of the Senate’s 40-hour “talkathon” on judicial filibusters, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “He is Latino” that outlined a series of Senate staff memos illustrating the hand- in-glove relationship between Senate Democrats and left-wing interest groups in coordinating the obstruction of Bush judicial nominees. Thus commenced the Memogate scandal during which Democrats would accuse Republicans (especially Miranda) of “stealing” their "confidential" strategy memos, Republicans would demand an investigation of Democrats’ possibly unlawful collusion with special interests, and the Press took sides in a two year debate over which of those two stories was the more important. In February 2004, Miranda resigned his Senate position in an unusually public manner calling for an investigation of the Democrat memos. His resignation letter was published in full by National Review.
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