Sen. Cory Booker's speech ran 25 hours and 5 minutes long, breaking a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957.
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00:00Would the Senator yield for a question?
00:03Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no.
00:08I just want to tell you a question.
00:10Do you know you have just broken the record?
00:13Do you know how proud this caucus is of you?
00:16Do you know how proud America is of you?
00:18I'm very sore and weary and tired, but I'm enormously grateful for a lot of folks who sent me their very, very personal stories.
00:40They gave me a chance to speak to the pain, hurt, fear, anger, demands of a lot of Americans.
00:46I'm so grateful to a lot of my colleagues, a lot of the help that people gave me to do this.
00:53I didn't know how long I could go, but I'm so grateful that I lasted for 25 hours.