Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor, but it was not filibuster. A filibuster is a speech ...

Cory Booker of New Jersey has been speaking in what is currently ... On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, then a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to ...

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United States Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech in the history of the US Senate with a marathon address railing against US President Donald Trump. Booker, a Democratic ...

The New Jersey Democrat is speaking in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. He is not delaying the Senate from a vote, so it is not a filibuster.

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 remained on the Senate floor 15 hours into his speech and promised to stay there as long as he is "physically able." ...

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has kicked off what is expected to be a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, saying that he will keep ...

WASHINGTON – It's been more than 20 hours. Sen. Cory Booker has not sat down, or even wandered far from his desk on the ...

“These are not normal times in America,” he said. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” Is ...

Sixty-eight years after South Carolina Senator Storm Thurmond broke the record for the longest Senate speech to delay access ...

Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that ... “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are ...