Dianne Reidy yanked from the podium at the U.S. House on Wednesday night. (Screenshot from YouTube)

As the U.S. House worked towards passing the crucial government funding and debt ceiling deal on Wednesday night, a stenographer for the House, eventually identified as Dianne Reidy, decided to sneak her way to the microphone on the dais and went on a 25-second long rant about the Freemasons and God.

"He will not be mocked. The greatest deception here is that this is not one nation under God. It never was. It would not have been. The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons. They go against God. You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to God. Praise be to Jesus," Reidy yelled as she was quickly yanked from the podium and escorted out.

This, however, is not the first strange incident to occur at Capitol Hill, and chances are it won't be the last. Here are four other bizarre stories involving the U.S. Congress –

1) John McCain Busted Playing Poker

The Arizona senator, who had advocated for military action in Syria well before this incident, was caught stealing a quick game of poker on his iPhone in September. Now it could be easy to assume that this occurred at an unimportant time - but Sen. John McCain was actually caught during the Congress' first hearing about Obama's plans to intervene in Syria.

2) Marc Rubio Quotes "Modern Day Poets" Wiz Khalifa, Jay-Z And The Godfather During Filibuster

The less said about this the better, but these were the stand-out quotes from Sen. Marc Rubio as he filled in during Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster back in March –

"Let me begin by quoting a modern day poet, his name is Wiz Khalifa. He has a song called 'Work Hard Play Hard.' You look at the time, I think it's a time when many of our colleagues expected to be home, back in the home state playing hard, but I'm happy we're here still working hard on this issue."

3) Strom Thurmond's Record-Breaking Filibuster

As Sen. Strom Thurmond began speaking at 8:54pm on August 28, 1957, chances are most people would have assumed that he would be done before midnight, but that was not the case. Thurmond went on to break records, after ending his filibuster at 9:12pm - one day later.

Thurmond was prepared with throat lozenges, malted milk tablets and even had one of his aides wait in the cloakroom with a pail, in the off-chance Thurmond needed to relieve himself. He still holds the record for the longest filibuster at 24 hours and 18 minutes, but failed to prevent the Civil Rights bill that was passed a few hours after he ended.

4) Huey Long's Shakespeare Recital

Sen. Huey Long was well known for using filibusters effectively to prevent bills that he believed were more favorable to the rich at the expense of the poor – his methods however, were far from orthodox.

Long recited recipes for pot-likkers and passages from Shakespeare's works, and once managed to hold the floor for 15 hours, analyzing the constitution to the point where many of his fellow senators fell asleep. He eventually ended his filibuster at 4am.

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