Cory Booker

your testimony was so courageous and so moving.

And so, I see your point. And, I also appreciate that, in your testimony, you discussed how we, in the West, should be trying to discredit--or have Islamic voices discredit Daesh.

I thank Senator Murphy very much for what I think has been one of the more remarkable exhibitions of grit and toughness. Senator Murphy has not only been on his feet, not only has not left the floor to use facilities, but he has stood in…

So the last question--and I know the senior Senator from Connecticut would like to ask a question. But this is where I have to say it becomes deeply personal to me, because what you are talking about there is your persistent, unyielding…

Senator Murphy, I am grateful for your yielding for a question. I think I want to drill deeper down on that point because I am not sure if Americans understand that there is a lot of bipartisanship when it comes to CVE, countering violent…

That is the first part of the framing that is very important--this determination that we will not do business as usual and that this fight will not stop. We will take this fight to the Senate floor, we will take this fight to legislators…

I appreciate the Senator yielding for a question. I have a number of questions for Senator Murphy. I think you bring up a good point. We have now been at this for about 8\1/2\ hours, and we have seen colleague after colleague. We have…

Again, I appreciate this point that I want to keep coming back to, which is that we are--and both Republicans and Democrats talk about--in a war with a determination to defeat our enemy. Yet our enemy has spoken very clearly about…

I thank the Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, and the senior Senator from Connecticut as well. I do want to echo his spirit and the deference he gave to Senator Barbara Mikulski and Senator Shelby. Both of these two Senators are…

The question I would like to ask is, Given the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans support commonsense gun legislation, given the fact that 82 percent of gun owners support closing the terrorist loophole, and given the fact…

I said one more question, but I have two more questions. This is sort of a progression. My friend is here today because of a commitment Senator Murphy made in his maiden speech in the U.S. Senate--a consistent sense of belief that my…

I have a question, but I think I can have a preamble to my question to set the context of the question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Ask the question through the Chair.

I just want, again, to say thank you to you. We started this about 13 and a half or almost 14 hours ago with business as usual. We started almost 14 hours ago with no focus on these issues in this body. We started this 14 hours ago with…

This is my final question. I ask the Senator one more time, will you yield for a question?

The Gateway Hudson Tunnel project to build new rail tunnels under the Hudson River is critical to New Jersey and to the Northeast region.

I rise today to speak about amendment No. 4083, submitted by a dear friend and respected colleague of mine from New Hampshire whom I must in good faith disagree with. This amendment increases already existing mandatory minimum sentences on…

I am pleased to have worked with Senator Cantwell and Senator Schumer to introduce the SANDy Act today which would provide much needed certainty and resiliency to our communications networks during times of natural disaster or emergency…

I am very grateful that my chairman of my committee, Environment and Public Works, spoke so eloquently about the issues surrounding this bill. I am new to the Senate--at least in Senate terms--because I have been here for 2\1/2\ years, but…

Information sharing among EU member States, today, is often compared with where we were pre-9/11.

there is a problem with government-run CVE efforts, because they are delegitimized--really the 'kiss of death'.

There were really colossal and consequential intelligence failures on the part of our European allies that allowed some of these horrific attacks to take place.

the House just recently passed H.R. 4314, the Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016, to accelerate our role in supporting them.

So, after the 9/11 attacks, we created the fusion centers, which I think have been really effective.

This is a very important hearing, but it is also a very timely hearing.

I really appreciate both your written testimony as well as the words you spoke.