Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor, but it was not filibuster. A filibuster is a speech designed to delay or prevent a vote on a bill. Booker was not trying to prevent specific legislation from passing but was speaking to show Democrats' resistance to President Donald Trump.

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Sixty-eight years after South Carolina Senator Storm Thurmond broke the record for the longest Senate speech to delay access to voting for Black Americans, Cory Booker, the Black Senator from New Jersey,