New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has kicked off what is expected to be a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, saying that he will keep ...

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The person who held the record before Senator Booker was segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes to oppose the Civil Rights Act in 1957. Senator Booker ...

The New Jersey Democrat is speaking in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. He is not delaying the Senate from a vote, so it is not a filibuster.

Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom ...

Cory Booker has not sat down, or even wandered far from his ... And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.

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.

The Senator from New Jersey began speaking at 7 p.m EST on Monday and said he would hold the floor as long as he was "physically able" to ...

Cory Booker of New Jersey has been speaking in what is currently ... On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, then a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to ...

According to the United States Capitol Police, a staffer for Senator Cory Booker was arrested on Monday for carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds without a license.

Sen. Cory Booker's Senate floor speech against the Trump administration and its policies now ranks among the longest, with the Democrat from New Jersey's speech crossing the 22-hour mark Tuesday ...