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

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

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

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 ...

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.

The New Jersey senator broke the previous record of just over 24 hours in a defiant move against the president. Cory Booker did not leave the podium for 25 hours and four minutes - not even to eat or ...

The New Jersey Democrat held the Senate floor for over 25 hours, toppling a record set decades ago by segregationist Sen.

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 ...

Cory Booker of New Jersey has been speaking in what is currently ... Cloture is a motion to end a filibuster, requiring three-fifths of all senators or 60 of the 100 member Senate to vote to end it.

These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate,' Booker says - Anadolu Ajansı ...

US Senator Cory Booker delivers a record-breaking 25-hour speech in the Senate, criticising Donald Trump's agenda and ...

Cory Booker mounted a historic protest on the Senate floor across two days ... “I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically ...