Sen. Cory Booker Speaks All Night on Senate Floor to Protest Against Trump’s Agenda

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has been staging a marathon speech on the Senate floor, protesting against President Donald Trump’s agenda.

The address, which as of publication has been going for more than 17 hours, has focused on multiple issues.

Booker’s speech, known as a filibuster, is one of the longest in the history of the Senate.

There is no time limit as to how long Senators can speak on the Senate floor.

It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster. With the GOP having 53 seats in the Senate, they would need seven Democrats to join them in ending Booker’s remarks.

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The longest speech was former Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), who spoke for more than 24 hours in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Booker was joined by his Democrat colleagues as they spoke in intervals during his remarks. They included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.).

Ahead of the speech, Booker said he is “not gonna stop speaking” nor stop standing.

To begin his speech, Booker said Trump “has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy, and even our aspirations as a people for, from our highest offices, a sense of common decency.”

“The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them,” he said.

The White House criticized Booker’s speech.

“Cory Booker is looking for another ‘I am Spartacus’ moment, but that didn’t work for his failed presidential campaign, and it didn’t work to block President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh,” White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Harrison Fields told The Epoch Times in a statement.

Fields was referring to Booker releasing private records surrounding Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was under consideration by the Senate in 2018. Such action was a violation of Senate Judiciary Committee rules.