Senate Democrats have lost any real leverage over Trump’s agenda. So deploring it in words may be the only path ahead for now ...

Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of ...

Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate ... Thurmond wouldn’t call his epic talk a filibuster, but he was unabashed about his opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

According to many posts about the occasion, Booker was performing a filibuster, breaking the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. One post on X stated ...

Cory Booker wrote himself into the Senate annals Tuesday, setting a new record for the chamber’s longest speech when he held the floor for more than 25 hours and surpassed the late Sen. Strom Thurmond ...

The journalist Michael Tracey came to the same conclusion I did: “Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's all-time filibuster record... for no particular reason? Just to talk for a really long time ...

Thurmond spoke against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes. Strom took the record from Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, who in 1953 held a filibuster that lasted 22 hours and 26 ...

Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on ...

Strom Thurmond was broken earlier this week as part of a protest address over Donald Trump. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., broke Thurmond's record for the longest Senate speech April 1 as he ...

Cory Booker, a senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, didn't take bathroom breaks or wander far from his desk during his record-breaking speech.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker's filibuster is already in the record books. As of 7 p.m. on April 1, 2025, on the East Coast, the senator had spoken for more than 24 hours straight. A live stream video on ...

Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for ... Thurmond wouldn’t call his epic talk a filibuster, but he was unabashed about his opposition to the Civil Rights Act. “There’s not ...