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Watching the Speech
[edit]While retaining the floor, Booker yielded to questions from 36 of his Democratic and Independent colleagues, which allowed him to rest. The two senators with the most questions were the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Chris Murphy, a close colleague of Booker's who stayed on the floor with him the entire speech.[1][2][3] As they both mention, Booker played a similar role during Murphy’s 2016 filibuster.
To watch the speech, use the timestamps in the table below. The table also includes a) Booker’s own sections (unlabeled), b) questions from fellow senators which are also interesting for the personalities and relationships they reveal, and c) the topics taken up in various statements, letters and stories, the most striking of which are in italics. Topics in ALL CAPS indicate subject divisions and refer to the binders Booker read from.
To get started, here is the link to the speech: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Cory_Booker%27s_25-hour_speech.webm
| Name / Affiliation | State | Timestamp | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cory Booker (D) | New Jersey | 00h00m | Starts Speaking at 7:00 pm (EDT) |
| 00h03m | Why I speak. It started with John Lewis. | ||
| 00m22m | MEDICAID, letters | ||
| 01h23m | More Medicaid letters | ||
| Chuck Schumer (D) | New York | 02h04m | Medicaid cuts |
| 02h08m | Why I speak | ||
| Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) | Delaware | 02h13m | Healthcare, Medicaid cuts |
| 03h19m | John McCain: Health insurance legislative process, compromise, failures | ||
| Chuck Schumer (D) | New York | 03h40m | John McCain, rational approach to government/military efficiency |
| 03h52m | End of John McCain/government efficiency section | ||
| 03h54m | Health infrastructure cuts | ||
| Chris Murphy (D) | Connecticut | 04h41m | Healthcare, Medicaid cuts |
| 05h11m | SOCIAL SECURITY | ||
| 05h53m | Parkinsons Letter and impassioned response | ||
| Andy Kim (D) | New Jersey | 06h27m | Governance, Social Security |
| Chris Murphy (D) | Connecticut | 07h30m | Social Security, Story |
| 08h07m | EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH | ||
| Chris Murphy (D) | Connecticut | 09h10m | War on Knowledge |
| 09h42m | IMMIGRATION | ||
| 09h44m | Kilmar Abrego Garcia mistakenly sent to El Salvador | ||
| 10h03m | Disappearing people, statement by Justice Antonin Scalia | ||
| 10h20m | Jasmine Mooney's arrest and detention by ICE | ||
| Chris Murphy (D) | Connecticut | 10h50m | Immigration |
| Peter Welch (D) | Vermont | 11h20m | Immigration, working with Republicans, tariffs on Canada |
| 11h52m | Working with Republicans, passionate statement | ||
| Dick Durbin (D) | Illinois | 12h12m | Judiciary committee nominees - can public official defy court order? |
| Kirsten Gillibrand (D) | New York | 12h23m | Social Security, understaffed FAA, drones, mass federal layoffs |
| NATIONAL SECURITY, MASS LAYOFFS, USAID,TAUNTING ALLIES | |||
| Tina Smith (D) | Minnesota | 13h02m | Immigration, Rümeysa Öztürk, freedom of speech |
| Raphael Warnock (D) | Georgia | 13h30m | Healthcare accessability |
| Amy Klobuchar (D) | Minnesota | 13h53m | Resistance especially to tax cut. Prescription drug cost reductions at risk. |
| 14h22m | The power of the people, Ukraine | ||
| Ron Wyden (D) | Oregon | 14h32m | Town hall meetings |
| Chris Coons (D) | Delaware | 14h56m | USDA halts deliveries to food banks, NATO, Denmark's sacrifice |
| Ed Markey (D) | Massachusetts | 15h12m | Tax cuts for the rich |
| Mark Warner (D) | Virginia | 15h23m | Ignoring security classifications |
| Chuck Schumer (D) | New York | 15h33m | Medicaid cuts, tariffs, congratulations |
| Elizabeth Warren (D) | Massachusetts | 15h48m | Social Security |
| 16h01m | NATIONAL SECURITY, USAID | ||
| Chris Murphy (D) | Connecticut | 16h22m | USAID |
| 16h24m | HOUSING AVAILABILITY | ||
| Chris Van Hollen (D) | Maryland | 16h28m | Social Security, Medicaid, food, tariffs, disappearing people |
| Angela Alsobrooks (D) | Maryland | 16h50m | Housing crisis |
| 16h58m | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS | ||
| 17h00m | Noon Prayer | ||
| Tammy Duckworth (D) | Illinois | 17h02m | Agriculture, farmers |
| Maggie Hassan (D) | New Hampshire | 17h16m | Medicaid expansion, health insurance, Social Security |
| Ben Ray Luján (D) | New Mexico | 17h42m | Agriculture and farmers |
| Sheldon Whitehouse (D) | Rhode Island | 17h53m | Greed and Corruption in Elections |
| Patty Murray (D) | Washington | 18h06m | Veterans |
| Michael Bennet (D) | Colorado | 18h30m | What is borrowing for? Tax Cuts For the Rich. Which don't work. |
| Jack Reed (D) | Rhode Island | 18h45m | HHS firings |
| Maria Cantwell (D) | Washington | 18h54m | Medicaid cuts |
| Alex Padilla (D) | California | 19h06m | Environment |
| 19h14m | Impassioned statement, Frederick Douglas's Letter | ||
| Angus King Jr. (I) | Maine | 19h30m | Courage. Veterans (30% of the Federal workforce). |
| Adam Schiff (D) | California | 19h42m | (Vegan) Attack on lawyers, judges, and the press. Impeachment trial. |
| Richard Blumenthal (D) | Connecticut | 20h02m | Signal Gate - Criminal Investigation |
| Jacky Rosen (D) | Nevada | 20h14m | Tariffs and policies affecting consumer costs, tourism |
| 20h20m | January 6th and bridging differences | ||
| Tammy Duckworth (D) | Illinois | 20h31m | Firing veterans |
| 20h37m | John McCain - The Pledge of Allegiance and the Hanoi Hilton | ||
| Tammy Duckworth (D) | Illinois | 20h43m | John McCain, veterans |
| 20h49m | (Following) Impassioned Statement: Veterans | ||
| 20h55m | THE ECONOMY | ||
| Chris Coons (D) | Delaware | 20h55m | Rory Badger (US Marine Fired by USDA). John McCain. Honor. |
| 21h00m | What speaks to the greatness of our nation? What does the Bible say? | ||
| Tim Kaine (D) | Virginia | 21h23m | Signs of the times. Where are we going? State flags, tyranny |
| Chuck Schumer (D) | New York | 21h41m | Kudos, breaking rules to get Tax Cuts for the Rich around Parliamentarian |
| 21h48m | President Joe Biden, Historian John Meacham, History, the People came through | ||
| Tammy Baldwin (D) | Wisconsin | 22h01m | HHS firings, tariffs |
| Angela Alsobrooks (D) | Maryland | 22h18m | Freezing and clawing back educational funding |
| Mark E. Kelly (D) | Arizona | 22h29m | Tariffs, tax cuts |
| Mazie Hirono (D) | Hawaii | 23h08m | Musk and Trump lawlessly firing employees and gutting government |
| 23h35m | The Constitution: Judge Learned Hand, Margaret Chase Smith.
"The Constitution saved my life." Filibuster with Chris Murphy. | ||
| Chris Murphy (D) | Connecticut | 23h49m | Solitarity, History, Senator Strom Thurmond filibuster. Summation. |
| 23h58m | Why I am here? John Lewis, history, and I. | ||
| Chuck Schumer (D) | New York | 24h19m | Chuck Shumer congratulates Cory on breaking the record (24h18m). |
| Ovation. Thanks for support. Begins closing. | |||
| Catherine Cortez Masto (D) | Nevada | 24h24m | End of Alzheimers Research |
| 24h28m | Whose values will define the future? Alzheimers. Efficiency. Corruption. | ||
| Jeanne Shaheen (D) | New Hampshire | 24h45m | USAID Accomplishments, Atul Gawande |
| 24h54m | Closing | ||
| 25h05m | Senator Cory Booker Yields the Floor at 8:05 pm (EDT) | ||
| Ten Senators did not ask questions: Elissa Slotkin (D - Michigan), Gary Peters (D - Michigan), Bernie Sanders (I - Vermont),
Ruben Gallego (D - Arizona), John Hickenlooper (D - Colorado), Jon Ossoff (D - Georgia), Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii), Martin Heinrich (D - New Mexico), Jeff Merkley (D - Oregon), and John Fetterman (D - Pennsylvania). | |||