Cory Booker: “Are there people in this institution that are wasting taxpayer dollars and really shouldn't be here? Absolutely, yes.”

For more than 50 years, the Helms Amendment has restricted the use of U.S. foreign assistance for abortion care, with real consequences for women around the world.

At its core, it’s a bill that undermines the rights of young people who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless hours of work and more, into their craft.

That's what frustrates me — we have a bill that's going to protect the wealth and the gravy train for a lot of folks but puts burdens on college athletes.

This is the kind of yahoo cowboy foreign policy that has mired us in Middle Eastern war after Middle Eastern war. With false bravado, we are saying we’re just going to go in there and kick ass.