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Cory Booker: We must act quickly for the good of the American people, because we don't want to be back here with postmortems of what…

On the recordMarch 5, 2014
We must act quickly for the good of the American people, because we don't want to be back here with postmortems of what could have, should have been done.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker stresses the importance of proactive measures to prevent chemical disasters.

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