Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) pulled an all-nighter and has delivered a marathon speech on the Senate floor looking to combat the Trump administration and its policies.

He’s well on his way to breaking the record for longest speech, if he continues to deliver his remarks through the rest of the day.

Booker, a Democratic leader, rose to speak around 7 p.m. EDT on Monday and was still going as of around 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.

He will break the record if he continues until at least 7:19 p.m. EDT.

“These are not normal times in our nation,” he said. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”

Despite the length of Booker’s remarks, it is not considered a filibuster, though it did disrupt Senate business since it ran past 12 p.m. when the upper chamber was set to gavel in.

Where does Booker’s speech line up against history?

Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor holds the record at 24 hours and 18 minutes long.

He began speaking on the civil rights debate at 8:54 p.m. and spoke until 9:12 p.m. the following day.

Thurmond broke the previously held record by Sen. Wayne Morse, who spoke for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953.

D’Amato has the second-longest filibuster speech from 1986. He was speaking about the Defense Authorization Act and spoke for 23 hours and 30 minutes.

Morse, who once held the record for longest speech, comes in third currently when he was speaking about the 1953 Submerged Lands Act.

Morse spoke for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953 and was the record-breaker until Thurmond.

Cruz spoke about the Continuing Appropriations Act in 2013. He held the floor for 21 hours and 18 minutes.

During the speech, Cruz argued about defunding the Affordable Care Act. His remarks turned playful when he read his daughters a bedtime story through C-Span, reading aloud the lines of Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham.” 

At 18 hours and counting, Booker has delivered the 5th longest floor speech in Senate history.

He must remain on the floor until 7:19 p.m. EDT to break the previously held record.

So far, he’s spoken at length about what Democrats say are threats from the GOP to cut Medicaid and Social Security.

Booker’s Democratic colleagues have come to the floor and ask questions. He asked a staffer to take away his chair so he wouldn’t be tempted to sit down.

At times, he’s read letters from constituents affected by the Trump administration’s cuts since taking office.

Booker said he was going to speak with “the intention of disrupting the normal business” of the Senate “for as long as I am physically able.”

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