U.S. Senator Ted Cruz threatened to pull the fire alarm on the Senate floor Tuesday in response to U.S. Senator Cory Booker approaching his 21-hour filibuster record. While Cruz does not hold the longest individual speech record—which belongs to U.

Cory Brooker's marathon Senate floor speech has just broken Ted Cruz's filibuster speech record. Booker, who has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, has just surpassed the Texas Republican's record of 21 hours 19 minutes.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joked about wanting to pull a Capitol fire alarm to end his fellow senator’s filibuster, which had been ongoing for over 21 hours as of Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) began his filibuster on Monday evening at 7 p.