By Mike Catalini, Associated Press
New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker made a speech all night to protest against President Donald Trump’s agenda on 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCUK2VBDLS4
“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 in part because of letters like yours, said Booker.
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.
Catalini has brought back to Trenton, NJ
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