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18:56Now PlayingSen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, held the Senate floor all night long Tuesday and into Wednesday morning, giving a marathon speech to disrupt legislative business and protest the Trump administration's policies as lawmakers struggle to reopen the federal government.
As of noon, the nearly 69-year-old senator had been talking for roughly 18 hours. He began speaking at 6:21 the prior evening.
Merkley said his filibuster, as the procedural tactic is known, was an effort to sound the alarm on both the government shutdown and President Donald Trump, in his view, dragging the country "further into authoritarianism."
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