Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor, but it was not filibuster. A filibuster is a speech designed to delay or prevent a vote on a bill. Booker was not trying to prevent specific legislation from passing but was speaking to show Democrats' resistance to President Donald Trump.

Nearly 70 years after Strom Thurmond filibustered against Black civil rights, Booker’s marathon speech called out threats to democracy and the harm of Trump-era policies.

Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, stood on the Senate floor for over 25 hours last week as he delivered what proved to be the longest speech in the chamber's history — breaking the previous record of ____ held by Strom Thurmond,