It lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes and was the longest single-person filibuster in history to date. Cory Anthony Booker born April 27, 1969 in Washington DC and raised in Harrington Park, NJ. He is a ...

Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate floor speech has just broken Ted Cruz's filibuster speech record. Booker, who has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, has just surpassed the Texas ...

According to USA TODAY, the senior senator never left the chamber to go to the bathroom. Booker's communication director told an NPR reporter Booker did not wear a catheter or a diaper. Did Cory ...

Sen. Cory Booker has been speaking for 17 hours straight as of noon Tuesday. Is it the longest speech in Senate history? What ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) attempted another “I am Spartacus” moment for himself on the floor of the upper chamber — holding the Senate hostage for more than 25 hours as part of a marathon “filibuster” ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record this week for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor, but it wasn't a ...

Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Rating: Mostly ...

But another, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, chose to stay in the Senate ... s landmark feat of endurance was surpassed by a Black senator!). Booker did not, technically, undertake a filibuster since he is ...

Are you really making history if you're not the face of a reaction GIF? The post These Cory Booker Protest Filibuster Memes Are The Moment first appeared on Her Campus.

The New Jersey senator got a big thumbs-up from supporters like Kamala Harris. Others have called it a “filibuster of nothing.” ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has now spoken for more than 22 hours as part of his ongoing marathon speech on the Senate floor, making it the second-longest speech in U.S. Senate history.

The show of force comes after Democrats in Congress have faced widespread criticism from their base that they are not doing enough to push back against Trump’s agenda.