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Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour speech against Trump administration's harmful agenda sets a new record and offers a beacon of hope ...
After breaking the Senate record for longest floor speech, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., gave an innocuous answer about whether ...
In some cases, long Senate speeches don’t produce clear results. In other cases, they can help pass or prevent new ...
Booker's speech has, ironically, put the filibuster in focus. And while the act itself may ... past — former President Barack ...
Republicans are looking to draft their bill using a “baseline,” or starting point, that shows no impact on the deficit ... to ...
"It's like the whole country stood up and gave him a standing ovation," the MSNBC host tells Seth Meyers The post Rachel ...
First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 25-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling ...
Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech set a new record and lit up TikTok, sparking debate about politics and social media fame.
He listed the impacts of Trump's early orders and spoke to concerns ... sweat for it and John Lewis bled for it." Booker's ...
The Democratic senator from New Jersey broke the record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond in 1957, saying later that ...
Booker fueled his speech with occasional sips of water but otherwise spoke uninterrupted. He invoked the words of Representative John Lewis, the late civil rights leader, who urged Americans to get ...
As NPR noted, “The longest filibuster on record was a 1957 speech by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina — ...