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 ...

The person who held the record before Senator Booker was segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours ...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke a record Tuesday evening, speaking for more than 24 hours in a marathon speech.

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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Cory Booker's Senate speech against the Trump administration broke Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1957 record Tuesday night to become the longest floor speech ever at more than 24 hours.

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

The New Jersey senator started his speech criticizing Trump administration policies on Monday and continued speaking into Tuesday evening.

US Senator Cory Booker has made history with the longest Senate floor speech in modern times, speaking for 25 hours and five minutes in a dramatic protest against the policies of President Donald ...

A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m. on Monday evening — and he doesn’t plan on leaving it any time soon.