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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the identical approach he started it, greater than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the phrases of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

“He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He stated he needed to do one thing. He wouldn’t normalize a second like this,” Booker stated of Lewis’ work as a younger activist in the course of the Civil Rights motion. “He wouldn’t simply associate with enterprise as common.”

A break from “enterprise as common” was what Booker had in thoughts as he carried out a feat of political endurance, holding the Senate flooring for 25 hours and 5 minutes whereas delivering a wide-ranging critique of Trump and his insurance policies.

In doing so, Booker broke the report for longest Senate flooring speech, a mark that had belonged for many years to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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