Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joked about wanting to pull a Capitol fire alarm to end his fellow senator’s filibuster, which had been ongoing for over 21 hours as of Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) began his filibuster on Monday evening at 7 p.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz threatened to pull the fire alarm on the Senate floor Tuesday to cut U.S. Senator Cory Booker's speech off.

Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate floor speech has just broken Ted Cruz's filibuster speech record. Booker, who has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, has just surpassed the Texas Republican's record of 21 hours 19 minutes.

Cory Booker breaks the record for the longest known Senate speech. Plus, actor Val Kilmer dies at 65. It's all on The Excerpt.

As Democratic Sen. Cory Booker neared Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history Tuesday night, the typically sparsely filled viewing galleries above the Senate floor grew packed.

Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday evening in a feat of endurance to show Democrats’ objections to President Trump’s sweeping actions.

What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks? For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber’s history without stopping to eat,

Senator Cory Booker talks with Rachel Maddow about holding the Senate floor for a record-breaking 25 hours and 4 minutes to raise attention to the perils of Donald Trump's agenda and inspire American activism against that agenda as many of his constituents have taken to regular public protests on their own.

Many Democrats, including in Mr. Booker’s home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina and moxie as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record.