Cory Booker
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Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the junior United States senator from New Jersey, a position he has held since 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker previously served as the mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, where he focused on urban development and public safety initiatives. He is known for his advocacy on issues such as criminal justice reform, affordable housing, and healthcare access. Throughout his career, Booker has emphasized the importance of community engagement and bipartisanship in addressing the challenges facing New Jersey and the nation.
Could you imagine the United States catching up to that and making that exception?
The way we are going to make things better is that they are going to get much worse. And that is unacceptable.
a lot of the comments, this is being muddled, and it would be great to have a private drone hearing.
I have lots of concerns, 16 months down here, that the Federal Government doesn't seem to be moving at the pace of innovation.
That is why one of the most important projects is to build Amtrak's Gateway Project, a tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey.
I am asking you what steps can Congress take in the FAA reauthorization to strengthen your ability.
Our Federal transportation funding overly prescribes how we fund the system rather than focusing on the performance of the system.
Somehow they are addressing the risk, they are doing it better than the United States, they are doing it quicker than the United States.
I am a little bit upset because it seems like when it comes to Government moving at the speed of innovation, we are slowing this country where innovation is going on overseas at extraordinary pace, and we are being left behind.
I have to say, I have an 84-year-old mother who is still on the road. Autonomous vehicles can't come fast enough for me because I worry about it all the time.
This is what is hard for me to believe, the slowness with which this country is moving.
You just feel like the other countries, Germany, France, New Zealand, they are all just being far more risky than the United States?
our Nation faces an infrastructure investment crisis across the board, but one aspect of our infrastructure that has been particularly neglected by the Federal Government is rail. While the Nation's large freight rail carriers are able to …
I support the Democracy Restoration Act. This important legislation would restore a voice in our democracy for millions of Americans who cannot vote simply because they have a criminal conviction. I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership…
I thank my colleague for those incredibly generous words. I recognize the Presiding Officer, Senator Perdue. I am grateful to be able to serve with him, and it is great seeing him in the captain's chair, to use my ``Star Trek'' parlance. I…
I introduced the Community Broadband Act to preserve the rights of local governments to invest in broadband networks should they so choose.
This incredible convergence of people from all different stripes in our country, all different backgrounds, races, religions, and political philosophy--let's just start with the bipartisan U.S. Sentencing Commission and the Judicial…
I am a passionate believer in the importance of us to have a free and open Internet. Net neutrality, it is critical for the growth for the American economy.
I appreciate that question. This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the legislation originally introduced by Senator Lee and the Senator from Illinois, because the mandatory minimums are patently unfair to people all across…
Any efforts at a bipartisan compromise in the U.S. Senate should be hailed and praised in and of itself.
I appreciate that, and I hope we all in the Senate can deal with the same set of facts. We are entitled to different opinions and different conclusions regarding the facts, but we should not be debating facts when we have them here before…
It is a pretty significant element, which draws a large amount of the justifiable criticism of the bill as it stands right now.





