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Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech

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Cory Booker Breaks Senate Speech Record in 25-Hour Rebuke of Trump Administration

First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 25-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling challenge to Trump’s agenda

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Cory Booker's record-breaking speech ignites a Democratic base 'desperate' for a fighter

He surpassed a record segregationist Strom Thurmond set in 1957, getting millions of views and widespread acclaim from Democrats as a model for how to take on Trump.

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Cory Booker’s historic speech energizes a discouraged Democratic base

As Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew packed.

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Democrats win Wisconsin, Republican margins sag in Florida | The Excerpt

Cory Booker breaks the record for the longest known Senate speech. Plus, actor Val Kilmer dies at 65. It's all on The Excerpt.

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Lawrence: After Cory Booker's 25-hour Senate speech, the odds don't seem so impossible anymore

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking filibuster put him in the history books and gave other Democrats a voice against Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on fundamental rights of all Americans.

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Who Is Cory Booker, the Democrat From New Jersey Holding the Senate Floor?

The lawmaker who's been holding the Senate floor with a lengthy speech railing against President Donald Trump's Republican agenda is a New Jersey Democrat who once found common ground with the preside

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Democrats Demoralized by Trump Get a Boost From Wisconsin Voters and Cory Booker's Speech

Democratic leaders are sharing a rare moment of relief — if not celebration — as they cling to election results from Wisconsin and Florida that offered a glimmer of hope for their party

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Cory Booker, Endurance Athlete

Senator Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech—an “ oratorical marathon ” and a “ feat of political endurance ,” according to reporters—was nearly an hour longer than Strom Thurmond’s 1957 attempt to filibuster the Civil Rights Act.

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The Cory Booker Endurance Test

What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks? For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber’s history without stopping to eat,

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People Are Just Discovering Who Cory Booker's Cousin Is

Amid the buzz around Booker's record-breaking speech, some social media users have rediscovered an unexpected fact—Cory Booker is actually the DNA cousin of legendary drag performer and television host RuPaul.

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Cory Booker hands weary Democrats a lifeline with marathon Trump protest

Democrats longing to ramp up their fight against President Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress have found a standard-bearer in Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). The 55-year-old senator and one-time presidential candidate’s marathon speech on the Senate floor this week,

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How Sen. Cory Booker prepared his body for record 25-hour-long speech

To physically prepare for the feat, Booker used “a lot of tactics,” he said, including fasting and curbing water intake in the days before to make sure he could stand for so long and wouldn’t have to take a bathroom break.

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See the moment Sen. Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's record

As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he was,

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With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of his own

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

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