Cory Booker

I have been very concerned and focused on issues of rail security.

Many New Jerseyans have told me that the number of fraudulent calls they receive is increasing, particularly on their cell phones.

Yesterday I joined my colleagues Senators Nelson, Thune, and Fischer in introducing the Surface Transportation and Maritime Security Act. The security of our Nation's ports and rail and surface transportation systems is critical to the…

As I said earlier, Julien Neals is someone whom I was proud to recommend to President Obama. Julien Neals is right there with the next jurist, Edward Stanton from Tennessee. They are well-qualified jurists who are the only two African…

Reserving the right to object, I have not been in the Senate that long, but when I came to the Senate, there were just months left when the Democrats were in the majority. I am sure, as the pendulum swings back and forth, I will be in the…

I rise today to speak about the judicial nominations that are currently pending before the Senate and the fact that we have a very serious vacancy crisis in the United States. We have a challenge based upon the unwillingness of the…

But it's based upon a rural broadband program that was done by a municipality. They were able to make massive investments in upgrading their farms. It's a really fascinating article about innovation at the local municipal level and…

Fiorello La Guardia said there is no Republican or Democratic way to fix a pothole, you just fix it.

I introduced the Community Broadband Act with the support of a lot of my colleagues here in a bipartisan way to preserve the rights of local governments to invest in broadband networks.

I was disappointed, if not angered, by a recent court decision that overturned the FCC's action to approve petitions for communities seeking to supply their communities with local broadband. I was even more troubled to learn that the FCC…

I am so proud of our state's tremendous achievement and look forward to seeing more states follow suit.

I think we owe the American people, families like this and this family business, a chance to fight to make sure that they can get broadband access.

I was so supportive of the ideas of municipal broadband, especially in areas where there are poor folks or rural folks who just aren't getting service.

I'm from New Jersey, and there's a champion on this issue, Congressman Bill Pascrell, who has been--for years and years and years before I came to the United States Senate, this is something he was very upset about.

I feel suddenly silenced.

A lot of it has to do with transparency requirements, and I'm curious, Mr. Cohen--these are some of the things that the BOTS Act does not have.

But it actually has a self-correcting behavior--the transparency would.

What about the argument against? I mean, shouldn't somebody be able to obscure their behavior when it comes to holdbacks or obscure their behavior in terms of how many tickets they're putting on sale?

Reserving the right to object, as the junior Senator from New Jersey, this is difficult for me because one of the judges the Republican leader is suggesting be skipped is the judge who has been waiting for the longest time. Judge Julien…

I rise again to continue the plea to move forward when it comes to fulfilling the vacancies now pending in our courts. I don't know about the Constitution saying anything about a tit-for-tat--what one President got another should get--but…

I want to thank Mike Lee for coming to the floor and speaking with such heart and conviction. Also, I want to thank Senator Durbin for his stand on the floor today. Please understand, Senator Lee, Senator Grassley, Senator Durbin, Senator…

It's also costing hardworking Americans thousands of dollars a year.

But the sad truth is--it's not nearly enough.

The lack of investment threatens our global competitiveness and impairs the safety of our vital transportation systems.

We need to do more to fix America's crumbling infrastructure.