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Andy Kim
@andykim· Democratic · NJ· Jan 27, 2025

We need to secure our border and create an orderly process but should do so while governing with the values that have made the United States a beacon of hope across the world.

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Andy Kim
@andykim· Democratic · NJ· Jan 27, 2025

Instilling fear in immigration communities is not the path to fixing America’s broken immigration system.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 23, 2025

He is going to make it. Congratulations. You are one of the two poet champions of the U.S. page class--the fall page class. (Applause.) Yes, yes. Don't get an ego. Don't let it go to your head. Don't be like a Senator. OK. The other one…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 23, 2025

Thank you to Katie Britt, the tough-as-nails Senator who will never quit, before I sit--I just can't stop myself. And thanks to Elizabeth, we should have all the poems put into the Senate Record. So with that, I would like to ask unanimous…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 23, 2025

I appreciate the great Senator from the State of Florida with a haircut that is almost as good as mine. Thank you, sir. Every year, the pages come through in cycles. I shouldn't say ``every year.'' There are multiple classes of pages. They…

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jan 23, 2025

I thank my friend for yielding, and I thank Ann Wagner for her tremendous leadership and courage in authoring this important bill. Madam Speaker, in a Florida abortion clinic, Sycloria Williams delivered a perfectly healthy, live baby girl…

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Chris Smith
@chrissmith· Republican · NJ· Jan 23, 2025

This year's March for Life is an engraved invitation to each and every one of us to seriously recommit and rededicate ourselves to the defense of the weakest and most vulnerable. To recommit with love and compassion to tangibly assist…

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Bonnie Watson Coleman
@bonniewatsoncoleman· Democratic · NJ· Jan 23, 2025

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was born in New Brunswick and raised in South River, and he died in D.C. on January 7, 2021. He succumbed to two successive strokes just hours after being pepper- sprayed by violent criminals…

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Jeff Van Drew
@jeffvandrew· Republican · NJ· Jan 22, 2025

I am pleased to see that the Senate adopted the amendment that we wanted, which was to put into the bill the legislation that we had to detain and deport illegal aliens who assault cops. They have broken the law once, and now we are…

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Jeff Van Drew
@jeffvandrew· Republican · NJ· Jan 22, 2025

These are not prepared notes, but I wanted to address a few of the things that the ranking member, Congressman Raskin, mentioned. It seems to me that from what I hear on the other side is everything but really dealing with and focusing on…

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Josh Gottheimer
@joshgottheimer· Democratic · NJ· Jan 22, 2025

I missed the following votes, but had I been present, I would have voted: NAY on Roll Call No. 20 and NAY on Roll Call No. 21. ____________________

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Josh Gottheimer
@joshgottheimer· Democratic · NJ· Jan 21, 2025

I missed the following votes, but had I been present, I would have voted: YEA on Roll Call No. 18 and YEA on Roll Call No. 19. [personal explanation]

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 19, 2025

his first actions as president haven't done what he promised voters he would do, hasn't lowered the prices of groceries, hasn't made housing more accessible, hasn't created more jobs, hasn't made people's lives easier when it comes to the…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 19, 2025

This is a stunning dereliction of duty as well as an undermining of our justice system, because these folks were not put in jail by Joe Biden.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 19, 2025

I could not help but be under that great dome and not think about four years earlier, where there were these horrific, violent acts taking place, and that he was not there for Joe Biden's inauguration.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 19, 2025

People -- five police officers died that day, and I'm just deeply disappointed and angry that that's how he's decided to begin.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 19, 2025

To pardon the person that beat Brian Sicknick from New Jersey, a Capitol Police officer who would later die, succumb to his injuries, is, to me, a horrific act.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jan 15, 2025

Senator, I came to the floor--or to the Chair, I came to the floor to listen to the good-faith arguments of colleagues about the Trump tax cut. I heard them say they would pay for themselves. This was a mantra I heard over and over again…

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