Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Is Everywhere
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New York Magazine |
Booker took to the Senate floor to speak in protest of the Trump administration’s policies, vowing to hold it for as long as he was physically able.
The New York Times |
Many Democrats, including in Mr. Booker’s home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina and moxie as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record.
CBC.ca |
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night Monday and into Tuesday evening.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber’s history without stopping to eat, go to the bathroom or even sit down. “It’s an amazing physical feat, absolutely,” said Dr. Santina Wheat, a family medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Illinois.
Booker didn’t just give a speech—he gave an experience. Senator Cory Booker just set a U.S. Senate record by speaking for 25 hours 5 minutes—an act of protest, endurance, and message amplification that was impossible to ignore.