US Senator Cory Booker breaks record holding the floor for over 25 hours
Democratic US Senator Cory Booker broke the record for the Senate's longest continuous speech on Tuesday, April 1, holding the floor for over 25 hours.
The record was previously held by the segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
In the summer of 1957 Thurmond launched a filibuster against civil rights legislation that lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes. In the end, Thurmond failed in his mission to block a bill that expanded federal protections of voting rights for Black people.
The 55-year-old New Jersey lawmaker in a speech that began at 7 p.m. ET (2300 GMT) on Monday criticized the campaign by president Donald Trump and his key adviser Elon Musk, the world's richest person, to slash large swaths of the federal government.
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