Republicans quickly pounced on Merkley’s talkathon, chalking it up to a 11th hour effort that is doomed to fail.
Nathan Brand, a spokesman for the conservative America Rising Squared, compared his speech to “those all-nighters before a test in college.”
“While Senator Merkley’s desperate floor speech may serve him well with his looney liberal base, it also shows how Senate Democrats have been co-opted by the extreme activists in their party,” he said.
April 4, 2017