Cory Booker: “let me just say, right at the top, how grateful I am to stand on the Senate floor again with Senator Chuck Grassley. He…”

“let me just say, right at the top, how grateful I am to stand on the Senate floor again with Senator Chuck Grassley. He has been one of the great partners I have had in my short time in the Senate, and I am honored to have gotten a lot of good work done and good law passed. I thank him and his entire staff. They were all tremendous to work with and went above and beyond for us to get this done at a very quick pace. I thank our colleagues for acting with the urgency that this issue demands. I am excited that this bill was able to pass, for it will ensure that the families of first responders who lose their lives to the coronavirus will be taken care of under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program. We expect now that over 100 of these death benefit claims will be submitted to the Department of Justice in the coming days and weeks, and we cannot leave these grieving families to fight alone for the benefits they need and deserve. As Senator Grassley very pointedly put it, we hope that the House of Representatives will pick up this legislation for immediate consideration.…”