News

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes on Thursday, delaying final passage of Republicans' ...
The House passed the "big, beautiful bill" after a grueling House session and met President Donald Trump's deadline for July ...
There’s no filibuster in the House, but Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries essentially conducted one anyway. Jeffries held the House floor for more than eight hours Thursday, ...
The Senate began debating Trump's legislative priorities without knowing whether enough Republicans will vote to approve it.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey made history on April 1, 2025, when he stood on the Senate floor and spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, delivering the longest floor speech in the ...
Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) seen minutes after he emerged from the Senate chamber, where he spoke for a record-breaking 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill, on Aug. 29, 1957.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said a lot during his record-breaking filibuster of 25 hours and 4 minutes Monday and Tuesday on the Senate floor, touching on everything from “the arc of the moral ...
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey spent 25 hours on the Senate floor in a non filibuster speaking in opposition to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's spending cuts.
WASHINGTON—Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) broke the Senate talkathon record that stood for decades on Tuesday, speaking on the floor for 25 hours and five minutes without rest to protest President ...
As of 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, Senator Cory Booker (D- NJ) has been standing and speaking on the Senate floor for over 20 hours -- since 7:00 p.m. Monday. Booker’s speech is not a filibuster, which is used ...
As it rolled past 20 hours, Booker's speech marked the fifth longest in Senate history and only one other current senator has spoken for longer.