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Cory Booker’s Long Speech: By the Numbers booker.senate.gov/news/press/c #Booker

www.booker.senate.govCory Booker’s Long Speech: By the Numbers | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. –</strong> U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that began at 7pm ET Monday evening and lasted until Tuesday night. After 25 hours and 5 minutes speaking directly to the American people, Senator Booker broke the record for longest individual floor speech ever delivered, surpassing the previous record set by Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. </p> <p>Yesterday, Senator Booker took to the Senate floor with the intention of speaking as long as he was physically able to uplift the stories of Americans who are being harmed by the Trump Administration’s reckless actions, attempts to undermine our institutions, and disregard for the rule of law.</p> <p><strong><u>Here’s a look at Booker’s speech, by the numbers:</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>25 hours and 5 minutes: total length of Booker’s speech</li> <li>1164 pages of prepared material</li> <li>More than 200 stories from New Jerseyans and Americans across the country shared in the speech</li> <li>350 million-plus likes on @SenatorBooker’s TikTok livestream of the speech</li> <li>More than 28,000 voicemails of encouragement left on Senator Booker’s main office line</li> <li>300 thousand-plus: largest number of people viewing Senator Booker’s Live Stream across just his platforms at once</li> </ul> <p>To watch Senator Booker’s closing remarks, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stFxmjUy5Y8">here</a>.</p>
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1/4 People are celebrating #Booker &the great #filibuster caper. That's fine. They're desperate for a hero w Schumer asleep at the wheel or rather driving drunk under the influence of #Zionist #fascism.

Did the record deserve to be broken and held by anyone other than a segregationist? Sure.

Please understand that ICE disappearing legal residents is directly related to #Zionism, to which Booker & many in Congress pledge allegiance with every vote & dollar every day.

instagram.com/reel/DH7QMOmvVdk

Photo of Cory Booker shaking hands and smiling with Yoav Gallant after the ICC issued a warrant for Gallant's arrest for starving children to death.
Sana Saeed on twitter Two bodies were found thrown in a grave, handcuffed. All these medical and aid workers were executed. If you're talking about free speech, colleges and deportations of students in this country right now and not about how all that is in service of this - this genocide - you are contributing to the repression & genocide denialism. The two are inseparable.
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I am very glad Booker broke the filibuster record and said a bunch of stuff that needed to be said in the Senate.

I'm disappointed his Democratic colleagues didn't immediately take to the floor afterward and shut down further proceedings in an act of civil disobedience.

#CoreyBooker#Booker
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