Cory Booker’s speech served as a reminder of the Senate’s potential for meaningful debate, but also underscored how far the ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record this week for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor, but it wasn't a filibuster. Here's why.

Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Rating: Mostly ...

For years, Democrats argued that the 60-vote threshold to cut off debate is an antiquated racist tool. Now, they celebrate it.

And in his inaugural speech as leader in January, he called the filibuster “the Senate rule that today has perhaps the greatest impact on preserving the founders’ vision of the U.S. Senate.” ...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., condemned the Senate filibuster as an "abuse of power" in 2022, years before his party praised him for launching the "longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history" on Tuesday.

The SAVE Act is headed to the Senate, where it faces an uphill battle. Here's what to know about its potential impacts in ...

"A month later, North Carolina senator George Badger complained of 'filibustering speeches,' and the term became a permanent part of our political lexicon," reads the U.S. Senate website. By the 1870s ...

House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said he’d try to work the situation out with Senate President Pro Tempore Garlan Gudger.

In the climax of the film, he stages a one-man filibuster to proclaim his innocence, which ran over 23 hours and ended only after he collapsed in exhaustion on the Senate floor. "We have this big ...