Cory Booker: “Before I yield--I love this power trip. It is the only time in 13 years I have really felt this power. I don't have to…”

“Before I yield--I love this power trip. It is the only time in 13 years I have really felt this power. I don't have to let my colleagues speak. And I, first amongst us all, really love to speak. I just want to say thank you to Chris Murphy. I repeated this 10, 15 hours ago, but I just want to tell the story, and then I will let you go, Chris. Nine years ago on this floor, after the Pulse shooting, we called Chuck Schumer, Chris and I. I saw a moment and he saw a moment that we couldn't do business as usual. We just said: How can you have this mass shooting, yet another mass shooting, and this body just go on as business as usual? It is why I am standing here right now. And we agreed, with Chuck Schumer's help, that we would get control of the Senate. Chris Murphy went down to that desk, and I promised him: I will be with you. I will stand with you. I won't sit down. We will go as long as we possibly can. And he began a filibuster 9 years ago, and it lasted 15 hours. And he still had fuel in the tank; I know he did. I was a hurting guy. I told you my back was hurting, my feet were hurting. But we had a direct end when Mitch McConnell agreed to give us a vote on commonsense gun safety, which I think every American and most gun owners agree on--just universal background checks. It failed to get 60 votes in the Senate, but you stood and I stood with you. He said to me days ago: If you are going to do this, Brother, I will be your aide-de-camp this time.…”