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Age limits on members of Congress could attract support from both Republicans and Democrats, Nathan L. Gonzales writes.
If Trump and his allies face no meaningful consequences, they have no reason to stop. If Republicans don’t believe that ...
Cory Booker wrote himself into the Senate annals Tuesday, setting a new record for the chamber’s longest speech when he held the floor for more than 25 hours and surpassed the late Sen. Strom Thurmond ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday delivered the longest recorded floor speech in Senate history, breaking the record set by segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began speaking on ...
The Strom Thurmond softball team is jelling. And it showed with the group’s strong 10-3 start to the season with a 3-1 record in region play after beating Pelion 8-3 on March 25. “That's a goo ...
Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. One post on X stated: Booker has now broken the record as the longest single-person filibuster speech in the United States Senate.
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 ...
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 ...
Fitting that Senator Cory Booker broke segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond's reocord for the longest Senate floor speech on ...
The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...
He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957. transcript Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, spoke for more than 25 hours, criticizing the Trump administration ...