Cory Booker

I rise today in partnership with Senator Thad Cochran from Mississippi having just submitted a resolution recognizing and celebrating Black History Month here in the United States of America. I wish to take a few moments before that to…

I am grateful for that. Again, I thank my colleague for his partnership. ____________________

I support the Student Non-Discrimination Act, a bill first introduced in the 111th Congress and reintroduced again now in the 114th Congress. This bill represents a critical step forward in protecting the rights of our lesbian, gay…

this idea of liberty and freedom, and we seriously have a problem within our criminal justice system.

we have a terrible problem in this country where people who--for example, we have the last three Presidents who have admitted to smoking marijuana, but the people who actually are arrested and incarcerated for use and sale of marijuana…

This place is not that diverse, and I am talking about the Senate.

that should raise a concern, at the very least

I would strongly encourage you to do that.

that is particularly problematic, then, when it comes to the issue of private prisons.

I know the work you do is essential to the strength of our Government, and it truly is, in my opinion, righteous.

I have a high suspicious of people that are in charge of imprisonment of folks, disproportionately minority, disproportionately poor, and that have some profit incentive to see more people coming into their institutions.

I rise today to speak about the Smarter Sentencing Act, which I believe is a very critical piece of legislation. I am pleased to be an original cosponsor of this legislation in this Congress, and I thank the bipartisan coalition of…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Booker pertaining to the introduction of S. 502 are printed in today's Record under…

We applaud Senator Booker, Senator Rubio, Congresswoman Eshoo and other co-sponsors for taking steps toward addressing this growing concern.

We believe that the United States should enact a comprehensive privacy law regarding the collection and use of personal information.

This is a phenomenal opportunity for a bipartisan, profoundly patriotic approach to an issue that can explode our economy.

I was talking about the spectrum availability and how that potentially could be constricting to American innovation.

the fact that countries like South Korea and others have more broadband penetration than the United States of America is absurd

Yes, we need to allocate more spectrum--but that only addresses a fraction of what we need to be doing to spur greater wireless infrastructure deployment.

we have to create more spectrum availability

I am now really over on my time. We have people that get injured every year, and other countries like France are using drones to fix poles.

I would love to encourage you to potentially hold a hearing just on that issue.

I think government hoards too much spectrum, and I think that there is a need for more spectrum out there.

We cannot stop human innovation and we cannot give advantages in human innovation to other nations that we do not have.

The U.S. is in vital need of more spectrum in order to meet unprecedented and growing demand for video, data, Wi-Fi connectivity and more.