i feel like it was a game changer. >> i rise today in opposition to obamacare. >> vowing to use every procedural measure to fight on in the senate, cruz takes the floor on september 24th at 2:41 p.m. >> i intend to speak in support of defunding obamacare until i am no longer able to stand. the whole debate we're having today is not over strategy. everyone in america understands that obamacare is destroying jobs. >> he speaks for 21 hours, 19 minutes. and then as expected, the senate strips out the defund language. >> any bill that defunds obamacare is dead. dead. >> in that fight if everything went your way, the president would have vetoed that thing to defund and you would have been back to -- >> well, not necessarily. listen, if you made the case to the american people that