Kevin McCarthy broke the record for floor speech in the House. But the filibuster records will astound you.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy started his speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at 8:38 p.m. and finished at 5:11 a.m., breaking the record for the longest speech on the floor.

McCarthy's over 8-hour speech broke the previous record set by then minority leader Nancy Pelosi in 2018. Her speech lasted 8 hours and 7 minutes as she told the stories of DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States when they children.

Unlike the Senate, the House has no filibuster but McCarthy acted to obstruct President Joe Biden's spending plan, the $1.75 trillion package the president calls the Build Back Better bill. His 8 hours, 33 minutes successfully prevented Democrats from passing the package through the House on Thursday, although they passed it Friday.

Using filibusters in the Senate or long speeches in the House to delay or block action on bills has a long history. So before McCarthy and Pelosi, who held the record for the longest speech on the floor and what are the longest filibusters in history?

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In 1909, Rep. Champ Clark, a Missouri congressman spoke for 5 hours and 15 minutes and held onto the record for the longest floor speech until Pelosi.

Years later, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina would go on to break the record for the longest filibuster. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The second longest filibuster was set by U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York, who spoke for 23 hours and 30 minutes to stall a bill that would have cut off funding for a jet trainer plane built by a company headquartered in his state.

Known as "The Tiger of the Senate," U.S. Sen. Wayne Morris started his filibuster against Tidelands Oil legislation on April 24, 1953 and concluded after 22 hours and 26 minutes.

The fourth longest filibuster in American history was done by U.S. Sen. Robert La Follette Sr. of Wisconsin, who spoke for 18 hours and 23 minutes in 1908.

At the time the Kennedy committee described Follette Sr. as a "ceaseless battler for the underprivileged" and a "courageous independent" who never wavered from his progressive reform goals," according to the Senate.

When U.S. Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin was concerned about an increase of public debt ceiling in 1981, he conducted the fifth longest filibuster. He spoke for 16 hours and 12 minutes to stall action on authorizing a total debt of $1 trillion, according to the Senate.

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Kevin McCarthy speech was longest ever in House, breaks Pelosi record