Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has officially broken the record previously held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, by delivering the longest continuous floor speech in Senate history.
As of 7:19 p.m. ET on April 1, Booker had spoken for 24 hours and 19 minutes, a minute longer than Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He began his speech at 7 p.m. on March 31, vowing in a video posted to social media platform X, “I’m going to go for as long as I’m physically able to go.”
