WATCH: Politician's 15 hour and counting speech!
Have you ever heard of a filibuster?
As of Monday night, 19:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), New Jersey Democrat Sen. Cory Booker took the podium on the Senate floor.
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12 hours later, at the time of publishing, he is still speaking as part of a filibuster, protesting the "national crisis" created by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
I've been hearing from people all over my state and indeed all over the nation calling upon folks in Congress to do more, to do things that recognize the urgency, the crisis of the moment. And so we all have a responsibility, I believe, to do something different, to cause — as [late Rep.] John Lewis said — 'good trouble,' and that includes me.
Booker has said he will try to last "as long as [he is] physically able" and has spoken for over 15 hours.
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What is a filibuster?
According to the Britannica, a filibuster is "in legislative practice, the parliamentary tactic used in the U.S. Senate by a minority of the senators—sometimes even a single senator—to delay or prevent parliamentary action by talking so long that the majority either grants concessions or withdraws the bill."
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The debate has no time limit, and speeches can be irrelevant to the issue.
A filibuster doesn't seem easy to attempt, but if you could talk about one topic for 24 hours, would you be able to do it?
And what would your topic of choice be?
You can watch Booker's on live stream here:
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