Nancy Pelosi makes record-breaking eight-hour speech in push for vote on immigration law

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking eight-hour speech last night in an attempt to force a House vote on protections for the "Dreamer" immigrants - and to prove to an increasingly angry wing of progressives and activists that she has done all she could.

Wearing four-inch heels and forgoing any breaks, Ms Pelosi spent much of the rare talkathon reading personal letters from the young immigrants whose temporary protection from deportation is set to expire next month.