WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...

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 ...

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

Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, delivered the longest recorded floor ... which he made while speaking against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights bill since Reconstruction, according ...

"Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?" View Entire Post › ...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a speech that lasted more than 25 hours and broke the ...

The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...

Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey ... the Dixiecrat who in 1957 filibustered to delay the passage of ...

History has been made. “I yield the floor,” New Jersey Senator Cory Booker concluded after his 25-hour speech protesting the ...

Fitting that Senator Cory Booker broke segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond's reocord for the longest Senate floor speech on ...

This is a moral moment,’ he said in his 25-hour speech to the Senate. ‘It’s not left or right. It’s right or wrong.’ ...