Sen. Cory Booker's Senate floor speech in April lasted more than 25 hours, making it longer than Jeff Merkley's 22-hour speech.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent, high-quality news sources (CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR) and Booker's own Senate office record, plus Wikipedia. Both speech durations and the comparison are consistently corroborated. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.917 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.cbsnews.com/news/cory-booker-senate-speech-trump-policies/ (corroboration)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jeff-merkley-marathon-floor-speech-protest-senate-trump-rcna239096 (corroboration)
- https://abcnews.com/Politics/democratic-sen-merkley-marathon-floor-speech-protest-trumps/story?id=126763514 (corroboration)