A more than 10 ½-hour speech has been finished by Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul in which he spoke in opposition to the renewal of the Patriot Act. He threw light on his disagreement to the National Security Agency's contentious vast collection of telephone data.

Paul tweeted that he'd launched ‘a filibuster of the Patriot Act renewal’; however the speech delivered by him was not a true filibuster since it did not impede consideration of any bill. According to reports, GOP’s speech will help think regarding his longtime effort for more protection of privacy rights.

Paul said that collecting bulk data records isn't what is required. He said so while talking about his viewpoint on how the terrorists behind 9-11 attack could have been tracked in a better way. At 11:48 after 10 hours and 30 minutes, Paul formally ended his speech. Considering Senate rules, Paul was allowed to speak until Thursday noon; he would have been stopped to let the chamber start a new legislative day.

The 'filibuster'-like thing turned out to be bipartisan when, after almost three hours of speech, Sen. Ron Wyden, who is a Democrat from Oregon asked Paul some questions regarding his viewpoint.

Wyden said, "There is no question it is a very dangerous world. But what doesn't make sense is to be pursuing approaches that don't make us safer and compromise our liberties". Wyden asked Paul many questions.

Paul himself said that he continues talking for long time so that he can tip up Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s carefully set plans for the week, delay consideration of the surveillance legislation and prevent amendments to the trade bill, in addition to preventing his Senate colleagues from relaxing on their holiday weekends.