{"id":9943,"date":"2025-05-28T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=9943"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:57:59","slug":"sen-cory-booker-expands-upon-historic-senate-floor-speech-for-new-book-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=9943","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cory Booker expands upon historic Senate floor speech for new book, &#8216;Stand&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">NEW YORK &#8212; <\/span>Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cory-booker-new-jersey-senator-speech-ab573bb7c3c76fa107cacac7136d3823\">his historic Senate floor speech<\/a> from last month into an upcoming book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cStand\u201d will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin&#8217;s Press announced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the country&#8217;s longest continuous Senate floor speech \u2014 just over 25 hours. The 56-year-old Booker spoke in opposition to numerous Trump administration policies, whether the desire to make Canada part of the United States or cuts to Social Security offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThis book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,\u201d Booker said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Booker&#8217;s speech broke a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/about\/resources\/pdf\/thurmond-strom-filibuster-1957.pdf\">the advance<\/a> of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book. \u201cStand\u201d will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin&#8217;s Press announced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the country&#8217;s longest continuous Senate floor speech \u2014 just over 25 hours. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9943\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}