Senator Rand Paul has ended his filibuster blocking Senate confirmation of President Obama’s CIA nominee, nearly 13 hours after he began.
Paul, a Kentucky Republican and tea party favorite, stopped his self-described filibuster early Thursday morning. Paul had been blocking confirmation of John Brennan to lead the CIA. GOP colleagues who were listening to Paul’s closing statement applauded as he yielded the floor.
Paul, a critic of Obama’s unmanned drone policy, started just before noon Wednesday by demanding the president or Attorney General Eric Holder issue a statement assuring the unmanned aircraft would not be used in the United States to kill terrorism suspects who are U.S. citizens.
The Obama administration has said the federal government has not conducted such operations inside U.S. borders and has no intention of doing so.
Source: THE NEW YORK POST
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This aside, watch Rand Paul carefully. His foreign policy views seem like his father Ron’s.