Cory Booker actually said...

"I urge my colleagues to swiftly confirm Dr. Rouse's nomination."

"If confirmed, Dr. Rouse will be tasked with an enormous challenge of helping to craft and guide our Nation's economic policy at a time of unprecedented economic crisis."

"The impact of this economic crisis has been savage and unequal and has compounded a lot of the realities that were already grievous in our country--systemic inequality, historic disinvestment in Black..."

"I would rather put a package through reconciliation that will meet the crisis of a pandemic, meet the crisis of an economic downturn that is -- has in some measures, is worse as a great depression."