Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is filibustering the Patriot Act on the Senate floor, and it doesn’t look like he’s going to stop anytime soon.

The Republican presidential candidate took control of the floor Wednesday afternoon at 1:18 p.m., simultaneously explaining on Twitter that he is filibustering the renewal of the Patriot Act because of the National Security Agency’s program that collects bulk phone record data of American citizens.

I've just taken the senate floor to begin a filibuster of the Patriot Act renewal. It's time to end the NSA spying!

— Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 20, 2015

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