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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

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

So this is the powerful thing about my friend whom I went with on my first trip to the continent of Africa as a Senator, and I remember flying into Zimbabwe. The leader of that country had passed away, and you always correct me on my…

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

I want to thank Senator Whitehouse. He has been a colleague and friend for a long time, and he stands right there at that desk for very long speeches. I think I am trying to go a long time; you go a consistency of times. And you have…

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

Resoundingly, yes. I am just laughing that every time DOGE puts up their supposed savings, they then try to take them down because, as soon as they are fact-checked, so many of them are not done. And I don't want to say all of them. I…

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

Oh, man. I have known you for like 25 years. I wanted to talk about you, but you are being so insistent, I will reward your insistence and say I yield for a question while retaining the floor.

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

Yes, yes, yes, it does. I mean, you put forth this litany where what we have to ask ourselves is at what point do my colleagues in the House and the Senate and the Republican Party say enough? Enough. God bless John Kennedy for calling out…

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

I thank you for the question I see in there. Again, great Presidents have great ideas they bring to Congress, and they fight to pull together and cobble together legislation that will last. The problem we have right now is this whiplash…

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

--you know, some 16 or so hours ago, and you would be proud of me because she is one of these voices who comes to me and says: Hey, Cory. Let's bring people together. I know that the Presiding Officer is new here, but he has the same…

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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

Amen. Amen. You know, Reverend Warnock was here earlier and was preaching and quoting Scripture, but you are preaching the gospel of truth, my friend, from a civic gospel that speaks to the cares and the concerns of American hope and of…

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

And, again, you and I and the Presiding Officer, there are a lot of people here I know that operate from just a place of just like decency. There are problems with government. We need to fix them. We need to make government more efficient…

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

Yes. Absolutely, yes. I love that you gave that litany, Senator. I benefited from your leadership on the Intel Committee. You are one of the people that--when things go down on planet Earth, you are one of the small handful of people with…

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

Those leaders are no longer around. I read this, and I get excited by the possibility for our generation and for the new leaders who are emerging in America. They have to. It is their obligation to not let the dream die and to redeem the…

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

I can't call you one of the baddest ass people I have ever worked with and not yield to your question, but I have to read the words: I yield for a question while retaining the floor.

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

You can't engage in a dialogue. The Parliamentarian is going to stare me down. You can ask me questions.

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

She was a Rutgers professor. I was listening to her way before I got to the Senate when she was fighting for the CFPB, when she was fighting so people would not be taken advantage of. She established the first-ever Agency whose sole…

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

I so appreciate the Senator, and I want to tell folks that when I wrote my book, I thought I knew this man here. I did a lot about environmental justice in my book. I did a lot about these toxic chemicals out there that are threatening our…

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