Sen. Cory Booker's more-than-25-hour Senate speech surpassed the previous record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina during a 1957 filibuster against the advance of the Civil Rights Act.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent, high-quality sources including NBC News, Yahoo/AP, and C-SPAN, all consistent on the timing details (25 hrs 4-5 min vs Thurmond's 24 hrs 18 min in 1957). Minor nuance that Booker's speech was not technically a filibuster does not affect the core claim's accuracy. [tier=silver indep_score=0.833 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Democratic Sen. Merkley of Oregon speaks for more than 22 hours to protest Trump amid shutdown (seed:politics_and_current_events)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/cory-booker-speech-ignites-democrats-desperate-fighter-rcna199204 (corroboration)
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-cory-booker-holds-overnight-115933931.html (corroboration)
- https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/senator-cory-booker-d-nj-breaks-record-for-longest-floor-speech-in-senate-history/5159021 (corroboration)