Jeff Merkley previously spoke for more than 15 hours in 2017 to protest President Donald Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Sources
- Democratic Sen. Merkley of Oregon speaks for more than 22 hours to protest Trump amid shutdown (apnews.com)
- https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/22/oregon-senator-jeff-merkley-speaks-holding-floor-overnight-decry-authoritarianism/ (opb.org)
- https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/jeff-merkley-neil-gorsuch-talk-a-thon (cnn.com)
- https://www.ijpr.org/2017-04-05/merkley-speaks-for-15-hours-opposing-gorsuch-nomination-but-was-it-a-filibuster (ijpr.org)
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