Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech broke record
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For a day, at least, Democrats across the country have a sense that their comeback against President Donald Trump may have begun.
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Over the course of 25 hours, Booker railed against the Trump administration’s handling of immigration and education and the looming threats to Social Security and Medicare, urging his fellow Democrats...
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Sen. Cory Booker slammed Elon Musk in a marathon filibuster for “bullying” Republicans into supporting President Donald Trump even when they disagreed with him. The New Jersey Democrat had vowed Monday night to hold the floor for as long as he was “physically able” to protest what he called a national “crisis” unleashed by the Trump administration.
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N.J., spoke out against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the Senate floor throughout the night after beginning his marathon speech at 7 p.m. Monday.The senator was still speaking on the floor as of Tuesday afternoon,
As Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor through Monday night and into Tuesday morning - an 18-hour address (not quite a filibuster, as no bill or nominee was being debated) attacking President Trump and Elon Musk's gutting of federal programs like Medicaid and Social Security - it evoked memories of another epic legislative speech: Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster.
Senator Booker (D-NJ) broke Senator Strom Thurmond's (D-SC) 1957 filibuster record. But did he advance his cause or just himself?