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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

I don't know. I am finding it from my colleagues right now. I am finding it from my friends. I am finding it from their heart and their commitment, and I am finding it from the people whose names and stories we are reading. You know I…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

I will answer that question by avoiding it because in New Jersey, there are so many great patron saints, from the great Bon Jovi, to the great Bruce Springsteen, to the incredible Queen Latifah, to the ``Chairman of the Board'' from New…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

Thank you to the Presiding Officer and my friend whom I am keeping up at 3 a.m. He is a kind and generous man to be here. Here is a closure of Social Security offices, 47 closures across the country in red States and blue States…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

People feel like, if you are not going from north to south to house parties, you have to engage directly with the people. They don't care what party you ascribe to; they want to feel you, see you. They don't care how much you know until…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is my veterans book. This is what I was reading from earlier. And everything you are saying is right, and it is such an insult. I read stories from our veterans. It is such an insult to the highest…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

And you all put tariffs on us. And I remember the quiet, the silence around that committee table. I felt like, whoa, this is such an ally, such a friend, such a consistent ally of us throughout the hardest difficult times in history, never…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

We have a President that is shredding the very Agencies that Americans who are struggling are relying on. Working people that, over the last 71 days, are finding higher prices, that are finding housing prices go up. Farmers in your State…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

OK, unrelated. As long as you give me that commitment, I yield for a question while retaining the floor.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

My friend and colleague, I am hoping that we can figure out thousands of ignition points where Americans can stand up and do that call to their fellow Americans to do more. I am not upset at the folks that have been saying to Democratic…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

And then I read stories from people that work in Social Security. They are telling about not having desks and the waiting lines and inefficiencies that this has created, and the horrible, deteriorating customer service.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

I am so grateful for the questions from my colleague and my friend. I want folks to know, probably the best dinner I had here when I came here was with the Senator from New York, who really gave me a quick rundown on how to get things done…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

We know Wisconsin is getting a lot of love here. I told my colleague I kept seeing folks from two towns--one in your State and one in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but this person, alas, is from Jersey. I wrote to ask you to do…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

Thank you, Senator. I will answer that. I see Ron Wyden has come to the floor--for both Amy and me, one of the chair people or, at this point, the ranking member of one of the great committees. To Amy Klobuchar's question, I read a lot of…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

Oh, God, I am very moved by your comments. I want to say that, from David McCormick to Jack Reed, the Senate has a good number of people who served this Nation, who answered the call. They should all get our honor and respect. Senator…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

``Chuck'' is OK. We came together, and we said: This is a time for Medicaid expansion. It was to say to a woman: You don't just get 60 days postpartum; we are going to expand that beyond 60 days. State after State--red and blue…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

Sir, my friend, I don't understand how a nation could allow a President to be so cruel that he would take away healthcare from people struggling with children that are facing the worst of health challenges, people who have a spouse like…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

Well, as we were talking earlier, the firings are adding up. It is now going to be 80,000 people from the VA alone, a disproportionate number of veterans. So that is a rollback in service. We already know that veterans in all of the…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Mar 31, 2025

I am going to just say this just to try to stay in the parliamentary--I yield for a question while retaining the floor. I yield for another question while retaining the floor.

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