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Booker, D-N.J., surpassed the previous record of 24 hours, 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., with a speech that clocked in at 25 hours, 4 minutes. When he broke the record at ...

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Loud applause filled the chamber as Booker surpassed the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer marked the moment by interrupting Booker with a question ...

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (S.C.) record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the ...

Booker's speech edged past the previous high mark set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes. Senator Booker reads The ...

Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster against civil rights. The New Jersey Democrat took the floor at 6:59 p.m. on Monday, saying he was doing so with the “intention of disrupting the normal ...

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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. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...

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The second-longest Senate speech on record was delivered by South Carolinian Strom Thurmond, an influential and staunchly pro-racial segregation Democrat who eventually switched parties because of ...