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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.
I rise today to discuss an issue that I believe should be discussed and worked on so much more in Congress. It demands an urgency of action, a dedication, and a focus to address our shortfalls as a nation to live up to our ideals, liberty…
I am hopeful that the Congress will act expeditiously in the new year to renew the surface transportation bill.
We have got to start doing more to prevent what is going to, I think, be inevitable if these bridges have to go under the inevitable repairs that they must have.
The tunnels between New York and New Jersey... have now reached a peak point where they are having severe structural challenges.
I want to thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member for having this hearing. It is very important.
To have such a profitable region choked by its infrastructure is utterly unacceptable.
If we respond by ordering body cameras, ordering police cameras, these will be good steps.
The fact that our low-income and minority communities are over-policed and under-protected is the spark, but poverty and economic deprivation is the kindling and that is what lights the flame.
one in three African-American males born today can expect to be incarcerated at some point unless we make a change.
There has been enough death in this country. There has been enough over-incarceration. It is time now that we make the dream real.
We must make a call to action to reverse this trend so that every American, all Americans, can feel that the Government really is liberty and justice for all.
At no time can we have a system of justice in which someone's race or religion or what they are wearing can justify engagement by law enforcement.
We have a Nation where African Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but 40 percent of the imprisoned population.
an African American is about 3.7 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana usage than someone that is White.
Until we say that racial profiling, religious profiling, is actually bad law enforcement, we will continue to bother people and engage people who had nothing to do with any wrongdoing.
when you have communities in this Nation who no longer trust law enforcement... that is a bad place that we are at in this country
the American people in my estimation are just not going to accept this is just being another incident
I would now like to turn my attention, just for a moment, to talk about the problems that affect the Muslim community in particular.
America has 5 percent of the globe's population, but 25 percent of the world's imprisoned people.
I know growing up our experiences as our parents talked to us about police officers, talked to us about behavior, there was dramatic differences between the exhortations of Black parents, Latino parents, and White parents.
we have seen tens of thousands of Americans taking to the streets in anguish and rage and frustration.
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