Cory Booker: “Forgive me, especially with who the Chair is. I am afraid. So I direct that question to the Chair to the person here.”

We have seen hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars pouring into our political system, corrupting all three branches of government.

These disparities are not just statistics; they represent lives lost, families impacted, and communities left behind.

We can do that in a Congress that’s willing to do that, especially if we’re willing to reform the filibuster, which is one of the things in the Senate that’s stopping us from having the kind of democratic reforms that we want to have…

There’s all these [Democratic] priorities that are not reflected in that text, and we’re not going to support it.