Cory Booker

the best providers, in my city, who are creating transformative change, taking people from addiction to recovery and from criminality to productivity, are being denied funding.

I think that all of these people are doing admirable things to stop it, but there is something that is driving this that is different than in any other country.

So, there are things we can do, right away, that can make a difference with this issue.

the depth of this crisis in our country is astonishing--especially when you realize how unique America is as a country.

This is not a human problem. It is an American problem.

we are the mass drivers of that consumption on the planet Earth.

Are we doing anything to be proactive, learning what we have from storms like Jonas and Sandy?

I really appreciate your leadership on the RISE Act.

I cannot say how grateful I am and my office is since, literally, the week that I arrived, in fact before I was sworn in, in the special election, we began working closely with FEMA and then the SBA on the urgencies around Sandy.

You, sir, are not a disaster.

I am hopeful that the changes within the SBA can make the program strong and the improvements that are included in the RISE Act can really help to make sure that after such weather events, New Jersey, as well as other areas across our…

I am confident that our businesses will recover. I am confident that our State will stand stronger than ever before.

I am also proud to be on this Committee and to be able to work on behalf of small business owners and Americans impacted by natural disasters all over our country.

I could not be prouder of the way that the people in our State really pulled together to demonstrate New Jersey's strength.

But don't you think a rebalancing, seeing what you are doing after the fact, that it could have maybe even prevented if we had done work?

The passage of the RISE Act... really has helped New Jersey communities to heal.

There is incredible evidence showing that a dollar spent for mitigations before a disaster strikes saves about four bucks in the aftermath.

It is outrageous, to me, that they are sharing communication across the Atlantic Ocean, but not within Europe.

I believe that we are very vulnerable because of the Visa Waiver Program.

I love that you said it is a matter of when--not if--and I do believe that that is the case.

I rise today to address what I believe is the urgency of the moment, really the test of the time. We have a Constitution that was designed for three coequal branches of government. We know the importance of each of those branches of…

today the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration. I applaud the work of my colleagues Senators Thune and Nelson. Their leadership on this important…

The Program utilizes existing U.S. maritime private sector capabilities at a fraction of the cost of what it would take if the Federal Government were to replicate the vessel capacity and global intermodal systems made available to the…

other countries are clearly leap-frogging over us by offering more flexibility to companies to test this technology.

Shouldn't we just be really focusing on testing right now and rules with a focus on creating a good environment for testing?