Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech
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On Tuesday at 7:19 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s longstanding record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate, which ...
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Booker spoke for 25 hours and 5 minutes to protest the Trump administration.
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For stretches the speech had a kind of relaxed podcast vibe, as Booker kidded with other senators or even did quasi-comedy bits (his re-enactment of Elon Musk trying to describe to Joe Rogan why Social Security was a Ponzi scheme, complete with Muskian verbal tics, was especially Laugh Factory-ish.)
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Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech at over 24 hoursNew Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, setting the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber's history.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Some attention, please: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is currently speaking ... in what is not an attempt at a filibuster per se, just a really long speech. I do not know why he is talking.
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