Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (S.C.) record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the segregationist made ...

Sen. Cory Booker wrote himself in the U.S. Senate history books by delivering the longest speech in the chamber on record, eclipsing the record of Sen. Strom Thurmond’s filibuster by a good measure.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began speaking on ...

Booker surpassed Sen. Strom Thurmond's 24-hour, 18-minute speech in 1957 Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and photography from Emerson College in ...

If nothing else informs you of the rot at the core of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness of his hypocrisy, it’s how the white segregationist from South Carolina ...

Plans are being made for the body of Senator Strom Thurmond to lie in state prior to his funeral next week. Thurmond died last night at a hospital in his South Carolina hometown at the age of 100. His ...