
Booker says it ‘irked’ him that Thurmond held previous record to ‘stop people like me from being in the Senate’
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Apr 1, 2025, 10:57 pm133 ptsSen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (R-S.C.) prior record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the late senator made history by trying to block civil rights legislation in the 1950s. “To be candid,…
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