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Sen. Cory Booker already has a run for the White House on his résumé, but on Tuesday night, the New Jersey Democrat entered the history books in a new way: resetting the Senate record for the longest floor speech, besting the mark set by South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.