House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking eight-hour speech on Wednesday in an attempt to force a House vote on protections for the “Dreamer” immigrants — and to prove to an increasingly angry wing of progressives and activists that she has done all she could. Image: Ms Pelosi's speech was the longest continuous speech in the chamber

In the US Senate, where long speeches are more common, the late South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond holds the record after delivering a speech lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Nancy Pelosi breaks the record for the longest speech in the United States House of Representatives. The 77-year-old Democrat spoke for eight hours non-stop, pleading for a vote to protect "Dreamer" immigrants who illegally immigrated and face the threat of deportation.