Not blocking any votes with this. It is the image of resistance without actually resisting anything.
This is not what we need. This is not helping.
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From the CNN article:
The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination. The Democratic senator’s speech will keep the Senate floor open – and floor staff working as well US Capitol police members detailed to the chamber – for as long as he continues speaking, but lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.
So purely performative. Not a filibuster.
I mean if it's a first step and others follow, then good. But why not filibuster a nomination you disapprove? (I have no clue if filibuster applies to a cloture vote. These fucking stooges and their silly made up rules of decorum...)
Yeah, you don't even need to do the actual talking to do a filibuster, you just essentially need to say you're filibustering. However, there's carveouts for the filibuster for nominations and budget reconciliation (and a bunch of other stuff, conveniently all stuff Republicans like).
Yeah, reading about the cloture rules now. Seems like the motion for cloture happened a couple days ago (temporarily ending debate) and it "ripened" today prompting a cloture vote, itself not apparently subject to filibuster. But simple majority is all that's needed on most nominations, and filibuster is limited to 2 hours before the final vote.
Even that will be performative.
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He was just reading letter after letter after letter from American seniors who are scared about what the administration might do to Social Security. Really helps bring home that these are real people who are affected.
Edit: 15 hours now and he's still going strong. He just gave a fiery speech about how his colleagues need to do more.
Edit: 25 hours. He beat the record. At least it won't be held by a racist anymore.
4 and a half hours now. Might be symbolic, but there are a lot of angry GOP senators who probably have to stay there.
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Wait, Cory Booker has some pepper?
That’s Great!
good job, just keep it up for 3.7 years
Hell yuh. I have had misgivings about Booker at times in the past but I have to say, good on him, this is the time for such things.
You can watch live on the official stream. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm
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I'm not trying to be a nay-sayer, but what does this actually achieve?
He's not disrupting a vote. He's only talking. While I'm all for the Democrats doing something this doesn't actually achieve much. Chick Schumer had a chance to actually disrupt this administration but he didn't.
So I am genuinely asking, if the Democrats are not preventing the Trump administration from pushing bills through e.g if this were a fillibuster,, how does this help?
It makes it look like democrats are willing to use the filibuster, while not actually blocking anything that might upset their donors.
You don't understand how the filibuster works. Please educate yourself rather than spreading red maga misinformation to further your clear pro-Trump agenda.
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Thank you, Senator Booker!
Does the Trump administration need the senate? Seems they’re doing whatever they want regardless of any checks or balances, so who is this actually disrupting?
Get outta here with that negativity. It's the first sign of life from Senate Democrats, and taking a moral stance against Trump is still important. We need more of this, not less.
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Nice.
Booker, not Brooks? Autocorrect?
Thanks, I did not notice that mistake.
Oh hey look, someone actually doing something lol
The video is forty-three seconds long so that’s not really impressive.