Cory Booker Releases Oura Ring Data From His 25-Hour Speech

Image by Nathan Posner / Anadolu via Getty / Oura / Futurism Devices Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, stood on the Senate floor for over 25 hours last week as he delivered what proved to be the longest speech in the chamber's history — breaking the previous record of 24 hours and 18 minutes held by Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat who in 1957 filibustered to delay the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Armed with several binders of data and bipartisan anecdotes spanning topics ranging from the economy to civil rights, Booker used the time to rail against president Donald Trump's policies. He repeatedly declared that America is in a "moral moment," and — invoking the late senator and civil rights leader John Lewis — urged both citizens and lawmakers to get in "good trouble" in protest of the current administration. And though he understandably showed some signs of fatigue towards the end of the 25-plus hour address, he maintained an impressive cogency, in what w ... Read full article.