Wed Sep 25, 2013 AT 6:31 AM EDT
Texas Senator Ted Cruz stood up on the Senate floor Monday afternoon at 2:41 p.m. to voice his opposition to ObamaCare, and then talked, and talked, and talked, and talked, going well into Wednesday, reports the UK’s Daily Mail. As Cruz talked, House Republican leadership indicated they may demand delay of ObamaCare’s individual mandate in exchange for averting a government shutdown – a move which would likely provoke a government shut down after all. And the Obama administration released a report calling prices in the exchanges set to open in less than one week less than anticipated, reports the Wall Street Journal.