WASHINGTON – There's a reason most politicians haven't been able to enact their big, sweeping campaign promises in recent years: A longtime Senate oddity known as the filibuster. Depending on ...

Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate floor speech has just broken Ted Cruz's filibuster speech record. Booker, who has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, has just surpassed the Texas ...

In 2013 Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spoke for 21 hours straight to try and stop Obamacare — a rant which includes discourses on “Green Eggs and Ham” and Wrestlemania.. Former South Carolina Sen ...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ... Filibuster length: 24 hours, 18 minutes. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., broke Morse's record with an unsuccessful filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The Texas Senator did not pull the alarm, as Booker went on to beat Cruz's 21-hour Senate floor filibuster railing against the Affordable Care Act. How did Cruz react to being bested?

HOUSTON — A petition on Change.org is urging Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to challenge the Senate filibuster record that was just set by Sen. Cory Booker earlier this week - but not for political ...

Some standouts include a nearly 15-hour filibuster by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., for gun control legislation in 2016, and a more than 21-hour effort by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to defund the ...

The idea for the People's Filibuster came from the recent 25-hour filibuster of U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, in protest of Trump's administration, Hortert said.