Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

Senator Strom Thurmond set a record for the longest speech ever delivered in the U.S. Senate, speaking for over 24 hours to ...

A group of seven Democratic senators are questioning the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its shake-up to its Civil Rights ...

When you think of a filibuster, you might imagine a senator standing at the podium, talking for hours just to delay a vote.

Twenty-five hours and five minutes on the Senate floor. Senator Cory Booker’s 25-hour speech was a historic protest against ...

The lawmakers are having "An Urgent Conversation with the American People" on the Capitol steps to oppose Republican plans to ...

Booker and Jeffries staged a sit-in ahead of a vote that could cut $880 billion of federal programs like Medicaid.

Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol in protest of Republicans' upcoming push to pass ...