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Here's how Sen. Booker got ready.
Very impressive:
After his speech came to an end, Booker told reporters that he hadn't eaten since Friday and stopped drinking fluids Sunday night so he wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.
Since he started speaking and until he yielded the floor, Booker did not eat and only periodically sipped from two glasses of water on his desk. He did not sit down, did not leave the chamber to go to the bathroom and did not even wander from from his desk on the Senate floor.
"I definitely started cramping up from lack of water," Booker said.
A few hours in, Booker even had a Senate page remove his chair so he wasn't tempted to sit.
Why? Because as long as he didn't leave the chamber, no other senator could force him to stop speaking.
By Tuesday afternoon, he was rocking back and forth in his black tennis shoes and leaning lightly on his desk in between monologues. Booker, however, did allow other Democratic senators to give short speeches and ask questions to give him a rest from speaking./i>
