Booker, a member of Democratic leadership, rose to speak around 7 p.m. EDT on Monday and was still going as of nearly 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday as Democrats look to highlight actions by the ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) set a new record for the longest Senate speech in history on Monday and Tuesday by holding the ...

As the sun rose on Tuesday morning and then throughout the day, he was still speaking from the Senate floor. Booker's office in a news release said he came into the speech with 1,164 pages of ...

When Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rose, more than 24 hours into the New Jersey Democrat’s remarks, to announce that a new record had been set, Booker received a thunderous standing ...

Sen. Cory Booker may have done more than give Democrats the moment they've been starving for against President Donald Trump and his Republican congressional majorities. He might have also jumped ...

Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech against President Trump's economic and social policies set a new record Tuesday night, as Booker, a Democrat, held the floor and spoke for more than 25 hours.

Sen. Cory Booker says he did not eat for days and purposely dehydrated himself in preparation for his record-breaking marathon speech that ended Tuesday night on the Senate floor. "I was very ...

His mother, Carolyn Rose, and father, Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first Black executives at IBM. Cary Booker passed away in 2013 at 73 after a prolonged battle with Parkinson's disease.

Senator Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech—an “oratorical marathon” and a “feat of political endurance,” according to reporters—was nearly an hour longer than Strom Thurmond’s ...

CNN, MSNBC and the BBC carried the moment, but Fox News did not. But the attention that Booker’s speech drew on social media appeared to be something that Democrats have been craving since Trump ...

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey speaking at the Senate on Tuesday. (Senate Television via AP) ...