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Senator Cory Booker's 25-Hour Speech Was HISTORIC

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For more than 25 hours, the New Jersey Democrat stood at the Senate lectern speaking against President Donald Trump’s policies in what may be the most dramatic and sustained public challenge to Trump...
From TIME
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew packed.
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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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