He received his bachelor's and Master’s degrees from Stanford and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The Queen’s College, Oxford, earning a degree in United States history in 1994. He got ...

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey eclipsed the speech record on the Senate floor held by alleged racist, the late Sen. Strom ...

As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his ...

Sen. Cory Booker of NJ broke the longtime Senate filibuster record on Tuesday set by Edgefield native Sen. Strom Thurmond, ...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor in a marathon speech, but will he beat Sen. Strom Thurmond ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (S.C.) record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the ...

He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957. transcript Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, spoke for more than 25 hours, criticizing the Trump administration ...

Strom Thurmond in 1957. Booker began speaking on the Senate floor at 7 p.m. Monday evening to protest President Donald Trump's policies. At 7:19 p.m. on Tuesday, Booker broke Thurmond's record of ...

In doing so, Booker of New Jersey broke the record for longest Senate floor speech, a mark that had belonged for decades to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who ...

Loud applause filled the chamber as Booker surpassed the record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer marked the moment by interrupting Booker with a question ...