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Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957.
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Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the State Supreme Court yesterday, maintaining the court's four-three liberal majority.
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Booker broke the record for the longest individual speech in Senate history, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., interrupting Booker to inform him he broke the record as the room erupt...

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Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech recalls Civil Rights Movement
Booker invoked the late Congressman John Lewis and urged Americans to make “good trouble” as Lewis had in opposing Jim Crow laws.
Thurmond set a record opposing civil rights. A Black senator broke it.
Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t talk about his Black daughter, though.
With a Nod to America's Civil Rights Legacy, Sen. Cory Booker Makes a Mark of His Own
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Democratic senator Cory Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the US Senate floor with a marathon critique of president Donald Trump. The New Jersey official took to the floor on Monday evening,
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey breaks Senate record with 25-hour speech
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey broke the record for the longest Senate floor speech after he spoke for more than 25 hours straight this week in protest of President Trump's policies.
Cory Booker Breaks Record With 25-Hour Speech Blasting Trump
I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.Y., said at the start of his lengthy speech from the Senate floor Monday.
Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech after 24 hours
US Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech ever delivered in the Senate. The New Jersey politician took to the floor on Monday evening and was still going more than 24 hours later.
Cory Booker's record-breaking speech got hundreds of thousands of views and millions of likes on social media. Now what?
Breaking Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech in history was just one of the things Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey accomplished on Tuesday.
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