Cory Booker: “so much niceness headed toward this guy--it is killing me over here. (Laughter.) I want to clear the record, and I have…”

“so much niceness headed toward this guy--it is killing me over here. (Laughter.) I want to clear the record, and I have a beef to settle with the good Senator from Pennsylvania. I will tell you this: I consider myself a person of faith, and I think that Senator Bob Casey has done something very irreligious if I must say. I know he grew up as a Catholic. I grew up in a Baptist church. We are both Christians. We have very different religious faiths, but I have an issue with Bob Casey because, in the organizing Bible verse that I used to tell people was how I motivated my life, I come here, and he completely eviscerates my allegiance to this Bible verse. So I am using this, and forgive me. And I might be rule XIX'd by somebody for maligning a colleague. But I am very upset that you have made me lose my religion a little bit, and I will give you an example. If you know--a point of order? No. (Laughter.) Will the Senator yield? No, I will not. (Laughter.) Matthew 25 is really one of those Bible verses that has, for so much of my life, motivated me. You know, the Lord said: I was hungry, and you fed me; or thirsty, and you gave me to drink. And it ends with this verse 40: And then you shall answer and say unto them, ``Verily I say to you, in so much as you have done to the least of these my brethren, you have done to me.'' The least of these is how--I thought that that was the calling of my faith--to do unto the least of these.…”