Democratic Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey set the record yesterday for the longest continuous speech on the Senate floor in history, lasting over 25 hours and beating out the previous record set by Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and Southern Democrat, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to filibuster the advance of the Civil Rights Act in 1957. Bookers speech, in which he spoke about cuts to Social Security, read letters from constituents and took questions to from other Democratic Senators, was said to be in protest to U.S. President Trump and actions made recently by the White House.