Senator Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Senator Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. “I’m very sore and weary and tired,” he said afterward.

After marathon speech, Booker said he was ‘sore and weary and tired’

Senator Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Senator Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. “I’m very sore and weary and tired,” he said afterward.