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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has kicked off what is expected to be a marathon speech on the Senate floor to protest actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, saying that he will keep ...
"Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?" View Entire Post › ...
The New Jersey Democrat is speaking in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. He is not delaying the Senate from a vote, so it is not a filibuster.
Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom ...
The person who held the record before Senator Booker was segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes to oppose the Civil Rights Act in 1957. Senator Booker ...
Cory Booker has not sat down, or even wandered far from his ... And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.
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 took to the Senate floor Monday ... “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and ...
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker carried an all-night speech in protest of President Donald Trump's agenda into Tuesday morning. Booker took to the Senate floor on Monday evening saying he would ...
Sen. Cory Booker's Senate floor speech against the Trump administration and its policies now ranks among the longest, with the Democrat from New Jersey's speech crossing the 22-hour mark Tuesday ...