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Sen. Cory Booker gave a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and five minutes. Here are the top five moments from his speech.
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 rights icon John Lewis.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen.
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As he neared 24 hours of standing on the Senate floor speaking, Sen. Cory Booker held up his pocket Constitution Tuesday, his voice only slightly more strained than when he’d started. “I keep going back to how this document is being undermined and attacked by this president,
Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz said Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) “may have changed the course of political history” with his marathon speech breaking the Senate’s record for the longest floor speech in its history. “I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history.…
First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 24-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling challenge to Trump’s agenda
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New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a speech that lasted more than 25 hours and broke the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, 68 years ago.