Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader, took to the House floor at 8:38 p.m., determined to make history, even if he had no hope of derailing the Democrats’ roughly $2 trillion bill to strengthen the social safety net and combat climate change.
Eight hours and 32 minutes later, he stopped talking, with a few groggy Republicans remaining to applaud his performance.
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The debate over the bill had been scheduled to last 20 minutes before Mr. McCarthy — who is not known for his soaring oratory — took over to deliver a circuitous, rambling speech stuffed with Republican talking points against the legislation and punctuated with riffs about history. He skittered through President Ronald Reagan’s missile defense initiative, his personal friendship with Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, and, at one point, a lengthy disquisition on the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on his way to the Battle of Trenton.
China came up a lot and repeatedly: its responsibility for the coronavirus, its hypersonic missile, and its mock-ups of American battleships. In one aside, he suggested that not even the Chinese would fortify the Internal Revenue Service to force its citizens to pay their taxes the way Democrats had in their bill.
As the clock ticked toward midnight and then long after, Mr. McCarthy sometimes seemed to lose the thread, spouting what sounded like a Mad Libs of Republican attacks.
“Inflation is at a 31-percent high, gas prices, Thanksgiving, a border that in a few months breaks every record of the last three years combined,” he shouted at one point.
The whole speech felt like a circular loop, touching on the same issues over and over.
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