Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor, but it was not filibuster. A filibuster is a speech designed to delay or prevent a vote on a bill. Booker was not trying to prevent ...

Back when he was running for president in 2019, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker became a bit of a meme when people realized ...

Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of ...

As Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor through Monday night and into Tuesday morning - an 18-hour address (not quite a ...

Frustration that the filibuster was not deployed last week should not obscure that it silently constrains the Republican ...

Democrats were against the filibuster before they were for it. The left continues to rage against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for casting a vote to avoid a government shutdown.

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin refused to help their party abolish the legislative filibuster in the U.S. Senate to make way for the passage of single-party, multitrillion dollar spending bills ...