Cory Booker's marathon speech
Booker's complete speech | |
| Date | March 31 – April 1, 2025 |
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| Duration | 25 hours, 5 minutes |
| Venue | United States Senate chamber |
| Location | United States Capitol |
| Type | Floor speech |
| Motive | Protest the second presidency of Donald Trump and the operations of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency |
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| U.S. Senate session beginning March 31, 2025 (30 hours, 20 minutes), C-SPAN |
From March 31 to April 1, 2025, Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, delivered the longest recorded speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump and the operations of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. EDT on March 31 and concluded at 8:05 p.m. on April 1, 2025. The speech lasted twenty-five hours and five minutes, surpassing the previous longest recorded speech in Senate history: Strom Thurmond's twenty-four-hour and eighteen-minute-long filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 by 47 minutes.