N.J., wanted to do something extraordinary. He knew Democratic voters were desperate for it.So he took to the Senate floor with little fanfare and went on to deliver a marathon speech — excoriating the Trump administration for lawlessness and undermining American values and in the process breaking the record for longest Senate speech ever,

Sen. Cory Booker may have given Democrats the moment they've been waiting for against President Donald Trump and his GOP congressional majorities.

Booker, the senior Democrat from New Jersey, on Tuesday broke the previously-held record for an individual speech given in 1957 by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond.

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By any measure, Democratic Senator Cory Booker’s marathon speech on the Senate floor was a stunt. But it was also mesmerizing and inspiring — a display of perseverance and defiance at a time when this country desperately needed it.

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

We already knew Cory Booker could talk. The question was for how long. And now we have the answer: Just over 25 hours. Booker at 7:18 Tuesday night broke the record for longest single-person speech on the Senate floor.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's fiery filibuster may be the moment exhausted Democrats have needed to galvanize opposition to the Trump agenda.

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