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Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book.

“Stand” will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin’s Press announced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the country’s longest continuous Senate floor speech — just over 25 hours. The 56-year-old Booker spoke in opposition to numerous Trump administration policies, whether the desire to make Canada part of the United States or cuts to Social Security offices.

“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,” Booker said in a statement.

Booker’s speech broke a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed the advance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed.

Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the Senate floor.

idk about you but i still clap when i listen to it on 2x speed. thank you sir

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    6 months ago

    This is the stupidest most performative bullshit we ever saw from the Democrats. His filibuster did nothing. Not a single good material action came from this performative bullshit.

    Fuck Cory Booker and the horse he rode in on.

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure I saw something about how when he made that speech he was also dodging a committee meeting where he would’ve been expected to speak out against big tech and Ai and such - people who have been his donor’s even (?? I can’t quite recall, and I can’t quite fucking find it because any Google of Cory Booker brings up his epic speech and how dope it was)