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

But by depleting himself in the most literal sense of the word, Cory Booker found a ... Democrat said while starting his record-setting 25-hour quasi-filibuster in defiance of a Trump regime ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act.

When you think of a filibuster, you might imagine a senator standing at the podium, talking for hours just to delay a vote.

Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, on May 29 for a live speaking event. Booker broke the record for the longest continuous Senate ... a segregationist and southern Democrat, to filibuster the advance of the ...

Cory Booker’s speech served as a reminder of the Senate’s potential for meaningful debate, but also underscored how far the ...

There were many remarkable things about Cory Booker's decision to ... Booker broke a record with his speech. Booker's filibuster, which lasted 25 hours and four minutes, broke a record that ...

Scientists assess that, on average, humans can survive without water for about three days. Long before that, your kidneys ...

Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) fasted for days and stopped drinking water the night before his record-breaking 25-hour filibuster this week on the Senate floor, he told reporters after it was over.