Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech
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For more than 25 hours, the New Jersey Democrat stood at the Senate lectern speaking against President Donald Trump’s policies in what may be the most dramatic and sustained public challenge to Trump...
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Booker broke the record for the longest individual speech in Senate history, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., interrupting Booker to inform him he broke the record as the room erupt...
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Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz was so impressed by the record-breaking speech by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) this week that he thinks the Democratic Party may have a new leader in its midst.
As Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew packed.
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.
A staffer for Cory Booker was arrested Monday for allegedly carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds without a license.