Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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The longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history lasted twenty-four hours and eighteen minutes, a record set in 1957 by Strom Thurmond of South Carolina to stall passage of the Civil Rights Act. Thurmond died in 2003, holding his same Senate seat.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943