Breaking Sen. Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech in history was just one of the things Sen. Cory Booker accomplished on Tuesday. Portions of his 25-hour-and-five-minute speech ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate Chamber after delivering a record-setting floor speech at the U.S. Capitol on April 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Booker's ...

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.

Monday night, at 7 p.m. ET, Senator Cory Booker took to the Senate floor to speak out against the policies of the Trump administration. He didn’t stop talking until shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday ...

As the speech went on the audience grew, Booker’s YouTube audience going from just 10,000 people Monday night to several times that Tuesday morning as people woke up and realized he was still going.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) made Senate history Tuesday evening after speaking for more than 24 hours on the chamber floor, eclipsing the previous record for the longest Senate speech held by the late ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday evening, setting a ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., wanted to do something extraordinary. He knew Democratic voters were desperate for it. So he took to the Senate floor with little fanfare and went on to ...

New Jersey senator Cory Booker broke a nearly 70-year-old record Tuesday after making a marathon speech on the Senate floor criticizing Trump administration policies that he spent days preparing for.

The 55-year-old Booker surpassed the previous record for the longest floor speech, held since 1957, by the late, segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Thurmond delivered a ...

The Franklin County native was born into slavery and rose to become a prominent figure for African American education.