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TIL that in 1986, Alfonse D’Amato, a New York Senator, resorted to reading aloud from the District of Columbia phone book during a 23 ½ hour filіbuster. 6 years later, the same Senator started singing a song satirising the outsourcing of American jobs during a 15 ¼ hour fіlibuster

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