Nov. 19, 2021: After months of wrangling, whats another few hours?
If a \u201cNew York minute\u201d is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a \u201cMcCarthy minute\u201d \u2014 something that drags on and on for hours.\nOn Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took to the House floor with a speech designed to delay Democrats\u2019 passage of the Build Back Better package.\xa0\nThis morning, at 5:10 a.m., some 8 hours and 32 minutes later, he finally stopped talking.\xa0\nSubscribe to POLITICO Playbook Deep Dive.\nRaghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio.\xa0Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.