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Cory Booker Breaks Record for Longest Senate Speech

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"Folks see in him what they want to see in a leader of the free world," Christale Spain, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, told USA TODAY.
New York Magazine |
Over the course of 25 hours, Booker railed against the Trump administration’s handling of immigration and education and the looming threats to Social Security and Medicare, urging his fellow Democrats...
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Buffalo Bills got a shoutout on capitol hill during a historic moment.

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