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| Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech after 24 hours | Cory Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech after 24 hours |
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| Cory Booker's speech slamming Trump's agenda pushes past 24 hours | Cory Booker's speech slamming Trump's agenda pushes past 24 hours |
| US Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech ever delivered in the Senate. | US Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech ever delivered in the Senate. |
| The New Jersey politician took to the floor on Monday evening and his talk-athon was still going more than 24 hours later. | |
| Booker, a Democrat, has spent his time criticising the Trump administration, calling it a "grave and urgent" moment in American history. | Booker, a Democrat, has spent his time criticising the Trump administration, calling it a "grave and urgent" moment in American history. |
| The previous record was held by Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act in 1957. | |
| "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able," Booker said at the beginning of his marathon speech at around 19:00 local time on Tuesday evening. | "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able," Booker said at the beginning of his marathon speech at around 19:00 local time on Tuesday evening. |
| "I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our nation is in crisis." | "I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our nation is in crisis." |
| Although Booker's speech was not a filibuster, a speech designed to obstruct passage of a bill, it held up legislative business in the Senate on Tuesday. | Although Booker's speech was not a filibuster, a speech designed to obstruct passage of a bill, it held up legislative business in the Senate on Tuesday. |
| The 55-year-old, who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the chamber, filled some of the time reading letters from constituents, who said they had been harmed by President Donald Trump's policies. | The 55-year-old, who is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the chamber, filled some of the time reading letters from constituents, who said they had been harmed by President Donald Trump's policies. |
| He also ran out the clock by discussing sports, reciting poetry and taking questions from colleagues. | |
| "I, first amongst us all, really love to speak," the former presidential candidate joked less than an hour before breaking the record. | |
| As he reached the milestone, Booker said: "I want to go a little bit past this and then I'm going to deal with some of the biological urgencies I'm feeling." | |
| The rules for such speeches require him to stay standing and forgo bathroom breaks. | |
| The African-American senator also spoke of his roots as the descendant of both slaves and slave-owners. | |
| "I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful," he said, referring to segregationist Thurmond's record-setting address 68 years ago. | |
| Booker's speech is also the longest seen in the Senate since a 21-hour filibuster in 2013 by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican, against Obamacare. | |
| The Democratic party, currently out of power in the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, rallied behind Booker's symbolic act of protest. | |
| "I just want to thank you for holding vigil for this country all night," Senator Raphael Warnock told Booker on the floor. |