Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of ...

Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate floor speech has just broken Ted Cruz 's filibuster speech record. Booker, who has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, has just surpassed the Texas ...

Cory Booker’s speech served as a reminder of the Senate’s potential for meaningful debate, but also underscored how far the ...

Back when he was running for president in 2019, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker became a bit of a meme when people realized ...

First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 25-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling ...

Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Rating: Mostly ...

But another, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, chose to stay in the Senate and ... He broke one of those unbreakable records, the legendary Strom Thurmond filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (it’s ...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke a record Tuesday evening, speaking for more than 24 hours in a marathon speech.

Sen. Cory Booker has been speaking for 17 hours straight as of noon Tuesday. Is it the longest speech in Senate history? What ...

Cory Booker of New Jersey held the Senate ... a night and day and refusing to leave, he had broken a record set 68 years ago by then Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist, to ...

Cory Booker (D-NJ ... Booker’s speech – not technically a filibuster, since he is not opposing any specific legislation – clocked in at 25 hours and 5 minutes, breaking the Senate record for the ...

The Democrat, 55, who has been attacking cuts under the Trump administration, vowed to keep going "as long as I am physically able." ...