Posted on 04/02/2025 6:38:41 AM PDT by RandFan
New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker on Tuesday evening broke the record for the longest floor speech in the Senate’s history with a marathon speech taking aim at the Trump administration’s policies and efforts to downsize the federal government.
Booker continued speaking after surpassing the 24-hour-and-18 minute record set in 1957 by South Carolina Democrat Strom Thurmond. Booker yielded the floor after holding it for 25 hours and four minutes, according to the Senate Periodical Gallery.
The senior senator for New Jersey acknowledged the moment as Democrats on the floor cheered.
“The man who tried to stop the rights upon which I stand … I’m not here though because of his speech, I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said of Thurmond, the Dixiecrat-turned-Republican and foe of the Civil Rights Act.
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Only proves he was endowed with much hot air.
Did he say anything that bears repeating?
Mr. Booker goes to Washington: I can see the Disney remake with Rachel Zegler as Spartacus Booker, a homely, sincere young man who gets mixed up with the toxic masculinity of Washington D.C. but finds his soul when he realizes he’s a woman.
He’s the biggest windbag in DC
🥱🥱🥱
Ironic that he beat a Democrat who was filibustering against approval of the Civil Rights Act.
This “record” was the whole point of his theatrics. He is irrelevant and is grasping for legacy.
Booker is simply a racist jerk.
A Real waste of the people’s time. Signifying nothing except the no one will remember it and that his party is for waste fraud and the abuse of the taxpayers dollar.
Yes it is!
Audit Mr. Spartacus. Let’s see how wealthy he has become making the working class enslaved in debt.
Normally this would have been called a “filibuster”, but what was he filibustering ABOUT?
He had no identifiable theme.
Thanks Booooker. You just proved what we all say: DIMOCRATS ARE LONG WINDED BIG MOUTHED BLOWHARDS SPUING HATE, CRAP AND GARBAGE. Thanks dude.
Pretty clear the Dem establishment are hoping he’s the next Obama, but he destroyed Newark so it’s not that easy.
And he loves to hear himself talk.
But did he set the record for the gayest Senate floor speech?
What does he do? Speak softly, have food and drinks catered to him, and change his Depends, all at the lectern?
When all was said and done, more was said than done.
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