Cory Booker’s record-breaking, 25-hour Senate floor speech, which began on March 31, 2025, and ended on April 1, momentarily ...

Long speeches incorporate varied topics and texts. Whether or not these digressions are relevant to the issue at hand, they make the speaker’s remarks last longer.

That’s what happened during Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act – the longest speech on the Senate floor before Booker’s performance. When Thurmond needed a bathroom break ...

The New Jersey senator talked to TPM about his strategy on Capitol Hill and what he hopes will happen in the public after his ...

Cory Booker, D-N.J., is the latest Democrat to ... the disastrous actions of this administration.” Broader Democratic strategy to fight back against Trump Booker’s marathon speech comes ...

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has claimed a peculiar ... inadvertently illustrates the fundamental disconnect between Democratic messaging strategy and today’s media reality. The contrast is striking.

Booker fueled his speech with occasional sips of water but otherwise spoke uninterrupted. He invoked the words of Representative John Lewis, the late civil rights leader, who urged Americans to get ...