Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour-plus speech broke a record previously held by a South Carolina senator who tried to prevent passage of the Civil Rights Act. Photo by John Partipilo | New Jersey Monitor
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for longest floor speech in the history of the Senate on Tuesday, surpassing the 24-hour and 18-minute record set in 1957 when South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond…