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Senator Cory Booker may have found a way. For more than 25 hours, the New Jersey Democrat stood at the Senate lectern speaking against President Donald Trump’s policies in what may be the most ...
Senator Cory Booker is holding a filibuster-like speech to protest Donald Trump’s reckless overhaul of the federal government.
As long as Booker has the ability to “remain standing” and continues to speak “more or less continuously,” he can’t be forced to cede the floor without his consent, according to Congressional Research ...
The Democratic senator from New Jersey broke the record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond in 1957, saying later that ...
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into the evening.
"And so we all have a responsibility, I believe, to do something different, to cause—as [the late] John Lewis said—'good trouble,' and that includes me." ...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) now holds the record for the longest Senate speech ever: 25 hours and four minutes. Why it matters: ...
The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) slammed the Trump administration, saying he has never seen an administration “do something so ...
Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday afternoon in a feat of endurance to show Democrats’ objections to President Donald Trump’s ...
A February CNN/SSRS poll found that nearly three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults felt congressional Democrats weren’t doing enough to oppose Trump. Booker’s speech ...