House pushes vote on Build Back Better to Friday due to record-breaking McCarthy speech

The House delayed the vote on President Biden's signature Build Back Better social spending plan until Friday as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke at extraordinary length. He wound up setting a record for the longest speech on the House floor.

McCarthy wrapped up his remarks at 5:10 a.m. Friday, eight hours and thirty-two minutes after he began, eclipsing the eight-hour-seven-minute mark set by Nancy Pelosi in a 2018 speech about the "DACA" program for immigrants. Only a handful of representatives were still in the chamber. The House adjourned a minute later and was to reconvene at 8 a.m. Friday.

Shortly after midnight, House Democratic leaders told members to go home and return Friday morning ror a vote on the bill.