Guess Who Was the Talkiest Senator of 2013

Put this down in awards you would have thought Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) would win.

Despite a twenty-one hour fauxbuster, the loquacious senator from Texas did not log the most speaking time into the congressional transcript. That honor goes Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL). According to C-SPAN, Sessions spoke for over thirty-three hours in 2013, three more than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

Via LA Times’ Mike Memoli:

That’s an impressive distinction considering that Reid opens and closes the Senate most days that it is in session, often making extended opening remarks, while Sessions is a member of the minority party without a formal leadership position.

Sessions’ position as his party’s ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and his frequent opposition to last summer’s immigration reform bill gave him plenty of opportunities to address the chamber.

Sessions and Reid were followed by Cruz, Dick Durbin (D-IL) and John Cornyn (R-TX).

[h/t LA Times]

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