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

On Tuesday at 7:19 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s ...

Booker spoke for more than 25 hours against authoritarianism and in support of Americans feeling the stress of the Trump ...

By breaking the Senate record for the longest floor speech in history with a searing critique of the Trump administration, ...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey made history on April 1, 2025, when he stood on the Senate floor and spoke for ...

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has claimed a peculiar distinction: surpassing South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s notorious 24-hour civil rights filibuster to deliver the longest speech in Senate history.

Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the ... a mark that had belonged for decades to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act ...

It surpassed the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957. MORE: Cory Booker broke a record with his 25-hour Senate floor speech.

Cory Booker took a version of his record-breaking ... which was set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Questioner after questioner asked what ...