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Cory Booker breaks Senate record with a 25-hour speech

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Booker called for Republicans who don't agree with Trump's economic plans to resist them, citing positions by conservative groups such as the Cato Institute and the Manhattan Institute.
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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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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,
How Cory Booker’s record-long Senate speech compares to others in history
Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on the Senate floor in past decades.
So long, Strom: Cory Booker breaks Thurmond's Senate record with 24-hour speech
Booker did not indicate before beginning his marathon speech that he intended to set a new record. He suggested he hoped to be able to last as long as he did in 2016, when he and
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Cory Booker breaks the record for the longest known Senate speech. Plus, actor Val Kilmer dies at 65. It's all on The Excerpt.
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
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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