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

I hope that the colleague of mine who, again, has been a mentor, a friend on all they things foreign policy, my belief is that he is referring to when General Mattis sat before the United States Senate and said very pointedly: If you cut…

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

Right. But that is the problem, right? Is that if you have an idea, bring it. Let's have an actual debate. Let's bring in experts. Let's have a debate. The person you are talking about, Bush, who had that idea, he had the good sense to…

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

I thank you for the question, my friend and my chairwoman. I did talk about this, but it is so worth repeating. At some point in the night, we covered Social Security, and we read story after story after story of senior citizens who are…

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

Who play where? In New Jersey. This is not a colloquy. I hold the floor. I do not yield. Brooklyn stole the Nets--it is an injustice--from Newark. They stole the Nets. I do not yield the floor for a rebuttal. And the Giants and the Jets…

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

Senator, I appreciate your question, but I just have to say this to you. You worked so hard with Senator Lankford, and one of the things I have to say--and I hope I don't hurt his politics by telling people how much I love Senator…

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

It is a great book. I actually learned--I read my colleague's book, and I learned a lot of data about gun violence from your book. We were talking about this belief that these words--this belief in our country that these words, why this…

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

I will give a short answer to your question, then, which is the irony--the irony that this President is remaining quiet about folks that are violating international law in many ways. So I think it is absurd, and you are right. It is…

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

Twenty-one years ago. In 2002, I lost a run for mayor and in 2006, I ran again. I was in between trying to do my work in Newark. Andy blew me away. I knew then that he was this extraordinary man of character and brilliance, this great mix…

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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

In answering this question--again, I continue to yield the question to you while retaining the floor. I want to just compound this for people. I know these numbers--$880 billion, 100 million Americans affected that would be affected…

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

A hundred miles. Now, what is that hardship to a senior? I have heard from people in their nineties. They already are having benefit cuts. The Wall Street Journal--I told you, I was trying to make you proud. I wanted to get as many sources…

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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

I want to answer this question so badly, but the crazy thing is that the person best to answer this question is the person who asked it. You have sat here and given this detailed analysis to show how this group of very wealthy billionaires…

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

Oh, God, yes, I will. I yield for a question while retaining the floor, Chris Murphy.

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

Yes, Senator Schumer. To tell a family to just double up or triple up drives up their costs. It is often that the elder who is living with them who might have dementia demands care. So the family member who is caring for them has to…

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

I actually believe you would do a 5-hour question to try to help me power through. Senator, we have been at this for--

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

I want to end with what I have been trying to do since I started some, I think, about 8 hours ago--yeah, 8 hours ago, I began. I want to begin by doing what I said I was going to do, is not just lift my voice but lift the voice of New…

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

Then I yield for a question. If you want to ask me a question, I yield for a question while retaining the floor, with the recognition that I have to do it because I am standing between two Delawareans, and I am a little nervous. A New…

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