Booker, Filibuster and Elon Musk
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"This is our moral moment. This is when the most precious ideas of our country are being tested."
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey held the Senate floor for 25 hours and five minutes on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to rail against the policies and actions of President Donald Trump.
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Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz was so impressed by the record-breaking speech by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) this week that he thinks the Democratic Party may have a new leader in its midst. “I want to emphasize what Cory Booker did over the last 24 hours may have changed the course of political history,
As Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor through Monday night and into Tuesday morning - an 18-hour address (not quite a filibuster, as no bill or nominee was being debated) attacking President Trump and Elon Musk's gutting of federal programs like Medicaid and Social Security - it evoked memories of another epic legislative speech: Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster.
Senator Booker (D-NJ) broke Senator Strom Thurmond's (D-SC) 1957 filibuster record. But did he advance his cause or just himself?