Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday evening said he was sore and tired but grateful after breaking the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, surpassing the previous mark held by Sen. Strom Thurmond (SC), who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. “I was very aware of Strom Thurmond’s record since I’d gotten to the Senate,” he told reporters after leaving the chamber. “I always felt that it was a strange shadow to hang over this ins

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