There is not one person in America that can stand up to the Repukes....

[Armstead]

62. With equal respect...

I was trying to behave, but you want to talk about endurance and strength? Not a grilling, but much tougher in some ways. And I'm sure he wold have held up well if it were a grilling.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121005431.html

At 10:24 Friday morning, Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont took to the floor of the Senate to share a few thoughts about the tax-cut plan brokered by President Obama and Republican leaders.

Well after the sun had set and most of his colleagues had flown home, Sanders was still sharing - about taxes, bad trade deals and "the crooks on Wall Street," among many other topics. "China, China, CHINA!" he yelled at one point, stressing that the $14 trillion national debt was largely being financed by the Chinese government's decision to continue buying U.S. bonds. By early evening Sanders took to reading letters from constituents who had been hit hard by the Great Recession.

Sanders yielded at times to Democratic colleagues who wanted to speak briefly against the plan, but otherwise he held the floor until nearly 7 p.m., his thick Brooklyn-born accent filling the chamber.....