U.S. Sen. Cory Booker is continuing a marathon speech on the Senate floor, which passed the 25-hour mark and broke a record ...
To physically prepare for the feat, Booker used “a lot of tactics,” he said, including fasting and curbing water intake in ...
The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He ...
New Jersey's Cory Booker yielded the floor Tuesday night after holding it for more than 25 hours in a speech that took aim at ...
The Democratic senator from New Jersey broke the record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond in 1957, saying later that Thurmond’s record “always kind of just really irked me.” ...
The New Jersey Democrat spoke in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. Booker’s speech was not delaying the Senate ...
As NPR noted, “The longest filibuster on record was a 1957 speech by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina — ...