United States Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest speech in US Senate history with a marathon address railing against President Donald Trump. Booker, a Democratic senator for New Jersey, entered the annals of history on Tuesday after holding the Senate floor for more than 25 hours, shattering the previous record set by the late segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond.
Booker, who unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020, began his speech on Monday evening by invoking late civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis's call for Americans to get in "good trouble, necessary trouble".
"What has happened in the last 71 days is a patent demonstration of a time where John Lewis's call to everyone has, I think, become more urgent and more pressing," said Booker, a former mayor of Newark who was first elected to the Senate in 2013.
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