NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate flooring speech from final month into an upcoming ebook.
“Stand” will likely be printed Nov. 11, St. Martin’s Press introduced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the nation’s longest steady Senate flooring speech — simply over 25 hours. The 56-year-old Booker spoke in opposition to quite a few Trump administration insurance policies, whether or not the will to make Canada a part of america or cuts to Social Safety workplaces.
“This ebook is in regards to the virtues very important to our success as a nation and classes we are able to draw from generations of Individuals who fought for them,” Booker mentioned in a press release.
Booker’s speech broke a report set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed the advance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which ultimately handed.
Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from talking by asking him questions on the Senate flooring.
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