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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...
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 broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom ...
Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of ...
"Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?" View Entire Post › ...
The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a speech that lasted more than 25 hours and broke the ...
Cory Booker is taking a version of his record-breaking Senate ... Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of ...
History has been made. “I yield the floor,” New Jersey Senator Cory Booker concluded after his 25-hour speech protesting the ...
Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey ... the Dixiecrat who in 1957 filibustered to delay the passage of ...
This is a moral moment,’ he said in his 25-hour speech to the Senate. ‘It’s not left or right. It’s right or wrong.’ ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...