Cory Booker set the record for the longest speech ... 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., with a speech that clocked in at 25 hours, 4 minutes. When he broke the record at ...

Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the ... a mark that had belonged for decades to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act ...

Cory Booker, D-N.J.,, speaks during a confirmation ... he had broken a record set 68 years ago by then Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat, to filibuster ...

Cory Booker speaks with reporters shortly after completing the ... policies for more than 25 hours straight without a bathroom break, surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond’s previous record — in that case ...

“I rise in this chamber to get in good trouble,” said Cory Booker before delivering ... in a marathon address. Before Booker, the record was held by Strom Thurmond, who filibustered every ...