Cory Booker

Yes. You call it common sense. You would call it something that is just common sense allowing for that?

If the greatest natural resource this country has is not oil or gas, it is the genius of our children, then what we are doing with our inability to invest in improving this infrastructure is, to me, such an affront to everything we say we…

These camps can be breeding grounds for radicalism.

So, this is not something that should wait until after a Presidential election or until the next Congress? This is something that really needs to be done right now?

I completely agree. I appreciate that.

I have introduced legislation, the Postal Innovation Act, which stresses the urgent need for the U.S. Postal Service just to modernize.

I do think that the Post Office is antiquated, but not in the ways that have been discussed.

More than 150 years later, how can we permit such cruelty on our wildlife refuges in the United States of America?

Chairman Inhofe, I want to thank you for being gracious this morning with the conflict that Senator Fischer and I have.

I want to specifically thank him for introducing Inhofe Amendment 1, which will take at least a step in the right direction.

Charles Darwin, in fact, called the leghold trap one of the cruelest devices ever invented by man.

Body-gripping traps are not just cruel, but they are absolutely indiscriminate.

Because I literally believe that lives are at stake, do I have your commitment to take all possible actions to expedite this study?

I will say that again--completes its study quickly so that the rule can be fully enforced.

Thank you very much, Chairman. I want to apologize, Mr. Darling, at the outset. I have a Homeland Security Committee meeting that I need to go to after this. But I am very excited about your nomination.

Vilifying all of Islam and Muslims of course will hurt us.

I found myself having to explain that that was not our stance and actually get very strong in reasserting or reaffirming the pluralistic society in which we live.

We have a region of the globe that is a Millennial region, and we need to attune sort of the Baby Boomer and Gen X efforts to really focus in on language that they understand and that they are engaging in.

And I appreciate that, and just to highlight the urgency here--

I think it is really important that this be offered not just in universities, but also in high schools.

I would question whether they were effective--and thank you very much--and we are spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on things like Voice of America and not on the programs that you have such a…

We are not taking this nearly as seriously as we did----

The United States will continue to press the Security Council to respond effectively to any future violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

America has led throughout the decades in generations past, from the space race, which has yielded billions and billions of dollars in economic benefit to the United States.

So there clearly is a crisis, and I am glad I didn't hear anybody sort of denying that we don't have a climate problem.