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

Strom Thurmond's record always kind of … really irked me, that he would be the longest speech — that the longest speech, on our great Senate floor, was someone who was trying to stop people ...

Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster against civil ... Schumer also praised Booker when he briefly joined him on the Senate floor Tuesday: “Your strength, your fortitude, your clarity has been ...

Strom Thurmond in 1957. Thurmond ... Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025. (Senate Television via AP) According to Booker, a former Stanford football ...

He surpassed a record segregationist Strom Thurmond set in 1957, getting millions of views and widespread acclaim from Democrats as a model for how to take on Trump.

Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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

Senator Strom Thurmond set a record for the longest speech ever delivered in the U.S. Senate, speaking for over 24 hours to ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey began speaking around 7 p.m. on Monday to protest Trump policies and didn't stop till after 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

Yet Booker also provided a moment of historical solace for a party searching for its way forward: By standing on the Senate ...

EDGEFIELD — The record for speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate once held by South Carolina U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond was broken earlier this week as part of a protest address over Donald Trump.

By launching a TikTok account to livestream his record-breaking stemwinder, the senator became a viral sensation and offered ...