Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Rating: Mostly ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 25-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling ...

Cory Booker (D-NJ) set the record for the longest floor speech in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. In doing so, he eclipsed a filibuster by Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-SC), who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist, to filibuster the advance of the Civil Rights Act in 1957. Now, Booker, who spoke openly on the Senate floor of his roots as the descendant of both ...