Rand is usually all talk.
Via The Guardian:
Of all the candidates at Wednesday’s Republican debate, Kentucky senator Rand Paul talked the least, with just over six minutes’ speaking time.
He used the time to declare, twice, that on Thursday he would be more long-winded, vowing to take the Senate floor and “filibuster” a spending deal that would raise the debt ceiling.
Paul’s Senate speech, it turned out, lasted not quite 19 minutes. It was never to be a talking filibuster – in which a member of Congress speaks indefinitely to hold up other legislative action – because the spending deal was already headed for a scheduled procedural vote.
But Paul contended that an indefinite filibuster was possible if 41 of his colleagues supported him in a vote scheduled for 1am ET on Friday. “We will find out who the true conservatives in this town are,” he said on the Senate floor.
Paul “has been and continues to filibuster the unlimited debt limit increase,” said a spokesman for the senator. “If 41 senators stand with Sen. Paul, the filibuster will continue.”