Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...

First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 25-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling ...

Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

ASHINGTON – Just after 2 p.m., two aides wheeled Strom Thurmond in his black and silver wheelchair through a crowd of supporters in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “Hiya doon, hiya doon,” the ...

Booker’s predecessors in the pursuit of Thurmond’s record have demonstrated this difficulty in keeping a marathon speech focused. For example, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas diverted from his argument ...

That vote is now expected to take place on Wednesday. Thurmond previously set the record for the longest Senate speech, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act ...

Booker’s achievement stands in stark contrast to Thurmond’s efforts to deny Black Americans equal protections under federal law. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., an ally and friend of the New Jersey ...

It couldn’t have been a more different senator breaking the record of Thurmond, a supporter of racial segregation during his time as a member of the Democratic and then Republican Party.

Booker, 55, surpassed the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s speech that lasted 24 hour and 18 minutes in 1957. Booker said that he was speaking “in spite” of the previous record holder’s remarks ...

Yet as anticipation in the Capitol grew that he would supplant Thurmond, who died in 2003, as the record holder for the longest Senate floor speech, Democratic senators filled the chamber to ...