How it all relates to the Senate's filibuster Republicans are looking to pass Trump’s tax cut package with a simple majority, which is usually not possible in the Senate, where most legislation ...

The 55-year-old senator from New Jersey broke the record of Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster against civil rights legislation. Booker’s speech, which also has been confused with being a ...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., condemned the Senate filibuster as an "abuse of power" in 2022, years before his party praised him for launching the "longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history" on Tuesday.

Booker lasted 25 hours and five minutes in his nonfilibuster filibuster. His speech was liked on TikTok over 350 million times. In the end, these numbers matter very little. What matters is that ...

The fifth-longest in Senate history, the speech is not a filibuster but a broader critique. Booker, a former Newark mayor and 2020 presidential candidate, is known for his advocacy on civil rights and ...

Booker's speech was not a filibuster, which is a speech meant to halt the advance of a specific piece of legislation. Instead, Booker's performance was a broader critique of Trump's agenda ...

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Senator Cory Booker sets record with 25-hour filibuster [RAW] U.S. Senator Cory Booker, a former presidential candidate, spent more than 25 hours on the senate floor between Monday night and ...

I wanted to get myself into ketosis ... since I got to the United States Senate by the fact that the longest filibuster in constitutional history was trying to block the very civil rights that ...

On Monday and Tuesday, for reasons that remain unclear, Senator Spartacus took the floor of the upper house and talked for over 24 hours straight in a filibuster that could have come out of a movie.

On this week’s episode, Noah and Scott break down the public financing of the Grand Sierra Resort’s arena project, and talk about the long and complicated history of the filibuster, as U.S. Senator ...