Senator Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s record

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The senators each spoke for several minutes about issues Booker mentioned, from Medicaid to tariffs to national security. Booker was praised for his persistence after they asked him questions and gave him time to elaborate.

Booker yielded the floor periodically to several Democrats, including Murphy, Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey, Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Chris Coons of New Hampshire, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.

Schumer said he was thankful to the gentlemen for his strength and “crystalline brilliance with which he has shown the American people the huge dangers that face them.”

Ted Cruz of Texas held the floor for 21 hours and 19 minutes, more time than Paul spent when he filibusters John Brennan’s CIA nomination months earlier.

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 against the Civil Rights Act.

Media reported at the time that Thurmond sustained himself with “diced pumpernickel and bits of cooked hamburger” and sips of orange juice. His aides put up a bucket in the Senate room so that he could have a place to relieve himself on the floor.

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There are a few requirements they must meet, however. For one, the senator must “remain standing and must speak more or less continuously,” the CRS says, which becomes more difficult as the hours pass.

The Senate has a tradition of using long speeches to delay legislation. Booker is not trying to block a bill or nominee in his speech.

A White House senior adviser and President Trump are all Booker’s targets because of policies that he says show a complete disregard for the rule of law.

Booker said that the president had harmed Americans’ safety, financial stability, the foundations of democracy, and any sense of common decency in just 71 days. “These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”

It covered a wide range of topics overnight, from healthcare and Social Security to immigration, the economy, public education, free speech and foreign policy. portions of letters that Booker said he received from affected residents and public comments from world leaders were included.

Booker said in the video that he had been hearing from people all over his state and the nation, urging Congress to do more to deal with the crisis. “We have a responsibility to do something different, to cause something, as late Rep. John Lewis once said, ‘Good trouble.’ And that includes me.”

New Jersey Democrat took the podium and promised “for as long as I am physically able.” He was still standing as of 11 a.m. Tuesday, with glasses on and papers in hand.

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To dislike him is wrong. He said that if he stood here, maybe, just maybe, he could break the record.

“The man who tried to stop the rights upon which I stand. I’m not here, though, because of his speech,” Booker said. I’m here even though his speech is over. The people were more powerful than he was.

Booker then relayed a story Lewis told him when the two were in Georgia, about meeting a man who, years ago, had beaten him up when Lewis was an activist protesting segregation and racial discrimination.

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A man of faith said, ‘every one of us needs mercy.’ Redemption is what every one of us needs. I forgave him. I looked at the boy as I hugged him. This nation needs you too.’ “

Booker said that it was strange that he had the record. It was always wrong to me, as a guy who was raised with Civil Rights movement legends like my parents and friends, to always see it as wrong.

Booker also spoke about two figures who were on opposite sides during the Civil Rights Era: Thurmond and the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who urged people to insist on justice by stirring up “good trouble.”

The New Jersey Democrat read aloud messages sent by Americans, stressing the pain they expressed over economic challenges and their fears that Medicaid and other key programs will face budget cuts.

Sen. Cory Booker’s marathon speech against President Trump’s economic and social policies set a new record Tuesday night, as Booker, a Democrat, held the floor and spoke for more than 25 hours.

Booker said “I want to go a little bit past this,” and then joked that he was going to deal with some biological urgencies.