WASHINGTON — New Jersey's Democratic Sen. Cory Booke r set a new record Tuesday for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history. His speech didn't come without some Georgia connections, with mentions of the late Rep. John Lewis and Former President Jimmy Carter.

Sen. Cory Booker started and finished his record-breaking speech protesting the Trump administration's aggressive policy blitz by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

Cory Booker, delivering a speech that bypassed the 24-hour mark in the Senate chamber Tuesday, made a Bob Uecker reference during one anecdote.

Booker invoked the late Congressman John Lewis and urged Americans to make “good trouble” as Lewis had in opposing Jim Crow laws.

The New Jersey senator broke the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate speech. He said he was inspired by Lewis' advice to cause "good trouble."

New Jersey's Cory Booker yielded the floor Tuesday night after holding it for more than 25 hours in a speech that took aim at Trump policies.

Sen. Cory Booker has not sat down, or ever wandered far from his desk on the Senate floor, where he has been delivering a marathon speech railing against President Donald Trump and his administration's sweeping policy changes.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record this week for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor, but it wasn't a filibuster. Here's why.