Cory Booker

Congress should act to preserve the open Internet, and with it the promise of first class digital citizenship and equal opportunity for all.

It basically eviscerates a lot of the key elements that are put in place in Section 202 of Title II that specifically refer to disadvantaged and minority communities.

If somehow they lose their net neutrality, they will know that they lost it, and they will look to us.

Today, Congress has the opportunity to show leadership yet again.

If we permit blocking, discrimination, and tolls, we will undermine the Internet's low-cost level playing field that has transformed our society, created an economic boom, and provided opportunity to so many in the United States and around…

To take the teeth away from the only mechanism to enforce some vision in this country that we can catch up with competitors in the globe and have broadband penetration, have equal access, equal opportunity.

They deserve to have these net neutrality protections.

it is a new lunch counter debate for many of us in our communities.

I would not be sitting here today if it was not for the Federal Government protecting my rights.

I will savor every single day I get a chance to serve with you.

Any approach that stops short of reclassifying broadband under Title II will not allow the FCC to adopt the rules we need today to protect customers and businesses.

the best innovation in America, if you want to talk about what is going on in this country in terms of government, it is not going on at the Federal level.

We are behind our global competitors.

I really look forward to working with you.

I hope whatever we do does not trample over the rights of minorities, poor, rural, and others that are so important to the success of America.

To allow the Internet to become a bastion of powerful incumbents and carriers would be a mistake of historic proportions.

to eviscerate municipalities' ability to innovate, especially because disproportionately poor minorities live in cities, would be unconscionable and unacceptable to me.

Fortunately, we do not need to create new laws or a complex regulatory structure to preserve the Internet as we know it.

the bedrock protections that are statutorily in Title II that allow like the civil rights legislation, like the voting rights legislation, around minorities and others, that bedrock defense of their rights so that Goliath cannot succeed…

broadband adoption is the number one civil rights issue and concern of this time.

Through the years, our groups have had to fight back against the misleading arguments made by the ISPs that Net Neutrality would widen the digital divide because of the harm it would cause to investment.

I wish to thank Senators Bennet and Alexander for their work on this legislation. It is going to help our Nation's students make better, smarter, and more-informed decisions about higher education. Historically, the United States has been…

I really appreciate the words of Senator Schatz, which are spot-on. People are so frustrated right now with Congress, and it does not take a Ph.D. in political science to figure out why common Americans of all backgrounds are frustrated…

I can't leave the floor without speaking to Mary. Mary has been such an incredible inspiration to me. I have been in the Senate now for 13 months, and I have had a number of conversations with her, but the best way to teach somebody is to…

I rise to add my sense of gratitude and appreciation to someone who has become a dear friend. I am his newest colleague and have had the privilege of working with him for these past 13 months. I just want him to know and state very…