House interpreters: sometimes the pressure’s so intense need ‘to be scraped up off the floor’
Almost 40 interpreters from the Public Works translation bureau's Parliamentary interpretation group worked 56 four-to-six hour shifts during the recent House filibuster, for instance.
MPs had been debating nearly 60 hours straight as the end-of-session filibuster petered out before the House finally adjourned for the summer at 8:10 p.m. on June 25.
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