Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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

N.J., for delivering the "longest filibuster" in U.S. history, despite Booker once arguing the filibuster is an "abuse of power." ...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke a record Tuesday evening, speaking for more than 24 hours in a marathon speech.

Sen. Cory Booker has been speaking for 17 hours straight as of noon Tuesday. Is it the longest speech in Senate history? What to know.

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

The New Jersey senator's record-breaking speech denouncing the Trump agenda became the rallying point for a demoralized party.

Cory Booker of New Jersey held the Senate ... a night and day and refusing to leave, he had broken a record set 68 years ago by then Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist, to ...

Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on ...

Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate floor speech has just broken Ted Cruz's filibuster speech record. Booker, who has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, has just surpassed the Texas ...

Cory Booker, a senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, didn't take bathroom breaks or wander far from his desk during his ...