New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker made a speech all night to protest the president Donald Trump Agenda in Tuesday morning.
Booker went to the Senate on Monday evening saying that he would stay there as long as he was “physically capable”. He was still on the ground more than 12 hours later.
“These are not normal times in our country,” said Booker at the start of his speech. “And they should not be treated as such in the American Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are serious and urgent, and we all have to do more to stand against them. ”
Booker took the reduction of cuts in the social security offices and spoke to concerns that wider cuts in the social security net could arrive, although republican legislators say that the program will not be affected.
Puncting and unloading reading glasses, Booker read what he said to be letters from voters. A writer was alarmed by the discourse of the Republican President on the Annex of Greenland and Canada and an “imminent constitutional crisis”.
“I hear you. I see you and I stand here partly because of letters like yours,” said Booker.
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Tuesday morning, Booker obtained the help of Democratic colleagues, who gave him a break speaking to ask him a question. Booker said he would give in for questions but would not abandon the Senate soil.
According to the Senate website, the file of the longest individual speech belongs to Strom Thurmond de Caroline du Sud, which obstructed for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the civil rights law of 1957.
Booker, 55, purges his second term in the Senate. He was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2020 when he launched his campaign from the stages of his home in Newark. He abandoned after having struggled to take a foothold in a crowded field, not to be a threshold to meet in a debate in January 2020.
Before going to the national political scene, Booker was considered a rising star of the Democratic Party, as mayor of Newark, the largest city in New Jersey, from 2006 to 2013. A Rhodes scholarship holder and a graduate of the University of Stanford and Yale Law, he began his career as a prosecutor for the Sans-But. He sat on the Newark Municipal Council before becoming the mayor of the city.
He was elected for the first time in the American Senate in 2013 in a special election held after the death of the outgoing Democrat Frank Lautenberg. He won his first full term in 2014, then a re -election in 2020.
Booker was at the bar of Newark when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a donation of $ 100 million to improve the city’s schools in 2010. A decade ago, Zuckerberg told AP a major Newark lesson applied in subsequent donations to ensure that public desires were considered.
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