Nov. 19, 2021: After months of wrangling, what’s another few hours?

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

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If a “New York minute” is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a “McCarthy minute” — something that drags on and on for hours. On Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took to the House floor with a speech designed to delay Democrats’ passage of the Build Back Better package. This morning, at 5:10 a.m., some 8 hours and 32 minutes later, he finally stopped talking. Subscribe to POLITICO Playbook Deep Dive. Raghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:02.7	Hey, good morning, Playbookers, I'm Rogan Winovalin.
0:05.3	It's Friday. I don't want to jinx it, but today might just be the day that the BB
0:09.4	gets passed. This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:14.7	If a New York minute is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a McCarthy minute,
0:19.1	something that drags on and on for hours.
0:22.2	On Thursday night at 8.38 p.m. Eastern, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took to the House
0:26.6	floor with a speech designed to delay the Democrats' passage of the buildback better package.
0:31.4	This morning at 5'10, some 8 and 32 minutes later, he finally stopped talking.
0:36.7	It was a de facto filibuster made possible by the Magic Minute rule in the house, which
0:40.7	gives the body top leaders unlimited amounts of time to speak.
0:44.1	In 2018, then minority leader Nancy Pelosi used that privilege during debate on the Affordable
0:49.2	Care Act to deliver the longest speech in house history, eight hours and seven minutes.
0:54.5	But now, McCarthy broke Pelosi's record.
0:57.1	But then again, after months of wrangling, what's another few hours?
1:00.1	The House will resume its normal functions at 8 a.m. this morning and vote on the BBB shortly after.
1:06.3	New White House Bureau Chief of Jonathan Lemire makes his debut in Politico today,
1:10.4	with a piece
1:11.2	about Joe Biden's long delay in choosing a Fed chair. Quote, President Joe Biden has been
1:16.3	wrestling for weeks with whether to reappoint the current chairman of the Federal Reserve,
1:21.1	Jerome Powell, or replace him with Lail Brainerd, a Democrat and economist who served on the Fed
1:26.8	board since 2014.
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