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Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Is Everywhere

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New York Magazine |
I just said, okay, I’ve got to think really hard here about other tactics and strategies I could put forward.
USA Today |
Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the State Supreme Court yesterday, maintaining the court's four-three liberal majority.
Politico |
It was a symbolic victory for a Black senator out-talking segregationist Strom Thurmond, who set the previous record while filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber’s history without stopping to eat, go to the bathroom or even sit down. “It’s an amazing physical feat, absolutely,” said Dr. Santina Wheat, a family medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Illinois.
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