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As NPR noted, “The longest filibuster on record was a 1957 speech by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina — in opposition to the Civil Rights Act — that lasted for 24 hours and 18 ...
Booker started at 7 p.m. ET. and is approaching the record for a speech on the record for a speech on the Senate floor, which stands at 24 hours and 18 minutes.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D- N.J.) took the Senate floor Monday night with the intention of speaking for as long as possible. The lawmaker began his marathon speech at 7 p.m., criticizing Elon Musk and ...
Cory Booker joins history's longest Senate speeches with 14-hour protest. See how his compares to the all-time record filibusters in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) shattered a nearly 68-year record this evening, as he spoke on the Senate floor for 24 hours and 19 minutes to protest President Donald Trump’s tenure. CNN, MSNBC and the BBC ...
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker mounted a historic protest on the Senate floor across two days, warning against the harms he said President Donald Trump’s administration is inflicting on the American ...
Senator Cory Booker has been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours to obstruct proceedings while staying within the governing body’s rules in protest of the actions of President Donald Trump’s ...
Booker's decision to lodge his own protest on the Senate ... Nellis posted on social media. “Trump and Musk are very good at it. Democrats have struggled to take these kinds of risks to our own peril ...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Monday evening took to the Senate floor to speak as long as he is “physically able” in protest of actions taken by President Trump’s administration. “I’ve taken the Senate ...
Cory Booker (D-N.J.) set a new record for marathon Senate floor speeches on Tuesday evening as his address surpassed the 24-hour mark, after vowing to speak "as long as I am physically able to." Why ...
With Democrats still figuring out how to respond to Republican dominance in Washington and the Trump administration‘s ...
The New Jersey Democrat spoke for 25 hours and five minutes without rest to protest the president’s actions in his second ...