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I believe there comes a time when everyone should stand up and fight for what’s right, and that’s what I intend to do.

I am standing and fighting against any kind of budget proposal that’s going to hurt Americans or hurt people in New Jersey.

I can’t speak to other senators’ consideration, but I’m going to say it as loud as I can, as often as I can, this is a time to stand and fight.

Representative Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

For weeks, Americans have watched federal agents with no visible identification detain people off the streets and instill fear in communities across the country.

We can’t bring a knife to a gunfight.

Don’t question my integrity. Don’t question my motives. I’m standing for Jersey, I am standing for my police officers, I’m standing for the Constitution and I’m standing for what’s right.

It’s time for Democrats to have a backbone. It’s time for us to fight. It’s time for us to draw lines.

We are standing at a moment where our president is eviscerating the Constitution of the United States of America, and we’re willing to go along with that today. No, no, not on my watch.

This, to me, is the problem with Democrats in America right now is we’re willing to be complicit to Donald Trump.

I am standing for my police officers. I’m standing for the Constitution, and I’m standing for what’s right. And dear God, if you want to come at me that way, you’re gonna have to pick it up with me, because there’s too much on the line…

I say we reject this and, in a bipartisan way, that we demand and end this kind of constitutionally unjust carving up of the resources that we approve.

It’s time for Democrats have a backbone. It’s time for us to fight. It’s time for us to draw lines.

What I am tired of is when the president of the United States of America violates the Constitution, trashes our norms and traditions, and what does the Democratic Party do? Comply? Allow him? Beg for scraps? No, I demand justice.

This is someone who has had something I have never seen before--hundreds of judges, hundreds of Federal prosecutors and Federal public defenders from both parties come forward, saying that Emil Bove should not be on the Third Circuit as a…

So, Mr. President, this casts a shadow over everything that was just said because I support these bills. Why do I support these bills? Because the officers of the State of New Jersey are going to benefit from them because Donald Trump…

I have passed numerous pieces of legislation for our police officers. I partnered with Chuck Grassley-- the incredible Senator from Iowa--on a bill very similar to the one I support about police officers who fall in the line of duty. In…

I object to the bills that are putting resources out that States from California to New York are not eligible for because of the actions of this President. The second thing my colleague confuses me is saying I had my chance. Actually, I…