Watch Ted Cruz Read 'Green Eggs and Ham' on Senate Floor

Dr. Seuss made an appearance on the Senate floor on Tuesday, thanks to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Cruz engaged in a 21-hour "filibuster" prior to a vote on a government spending bill which would defund Obamacare with a splendidly dramatic reading of Green Eggs and Ham

Cruz took the Senate floor just before 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday (though not technically to filibuster, since he had no chance of delaying the scheduled vote). After five hours, he picked up a copy of Seuss' classic tale about breakfast food and announced that it was his daughters' bedtime; thus, he felt compelled to fulfill his fatherly duty of reading them a book, even if it was from the Capitol via C-SPAN2 Read more...