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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.
There is wisdom in my community. There is still wisdom. If you will, allow me to share a story with you. I have learned my best lessons in life from some of the humblest folks who have this wisdom. There is something about the DNA of human…
I guess what makes me emotional, I have to say, is I do not need to imagine what the future will be like because I have seen it in the urban area I have represented for the last 7-plus years. Let me go a little bit deeper into what I mean…
I would like to continue to have the Senator from Rhode Island as well involved in this colloquy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
may I ask a question of the Senator from Rhode Island. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Jersey is recognized.
I am grateful to the Senator from New Mexico for giving me this opportunity to say a word about my State. To keep the conversation going, if the Senator from Rhode Island would indulge me in answering that question, but I would like to get…
I love that. Never bet against America's ability to innovate, to be resilient, to be industrious. So I continue on this editorial written by four past Republican EPA Administrators: The president also plans to use his regulatory power to…
I beg the indulgence of the Senator, because I am going to put him on the spot. The Senator was talking about Tesla, the innovative company of today. The Senator and I were sharing stories earlier, and this goes to the point of the…
College. The Senator got involved in building solar cars and racing around our country. To me, that is a tribute to the lessons of what you are talking about; that is, No. 1, we are the leader globally in innovation, but we are also one of…
But we know we see businesses now that are internalizing profits and externalizing costs. I see this in New Jersey. We are cleaning up the Passaic River, and it is costing taxpayer dollars. When we hear complaints about high taxes, it is…
No. I am reminded that Morgan Freeman or the main character of the movie wanted to get a library for the prison. Frankly, their strategy was every single day they sent a letter. The reason why I have great respect for the Senator from…
I don't mean to question the Senator's integrity, but I just don't know if he was alive at the time.
Thank you. They say: We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change at home and internationally. I'm telling you…
For us then to take the innovators that are trying to invest the money and the resources to keep America on the cutting edge of alternative fuels to be denied any kind of flexibility, and for the Senator illustrating earlier what is…
There are a number of issues here and the first is: Are temperatures going up? And for me, the air temperature is increasing. We have objective measurements on that. Ocean temperatures are increasing. We have objective measurements on…
So I guess my question is--first of all, there is no denying what is happening. The bait we often get pulled into, by using a ridiculous paucity of a study, as compared to the grand total of the other studies, is what is causing this. Is…
Allow me to continue because the Senator is absolutely right. I heard some incredible examples from other Senators talking about things we did. I love the story by the Senator from Maine about the pull-top cans.
Right. So that is sort of the frustrating thing for me. We see these challenges mounting up all around us and we still do nothing. It reminds me of this crazy story my brother told me when I was a young guy. I think originally it was a…
I share the Senator's sense of hope about our ability to come together as a country, crises after crises, generation after generation, and we come here to do the right thing. I know this from the history my parents and grandparents have…
Again, the Senator said it. On the local level, dealing with the urgencies of the moment, we don't have time to philosophize and don't have time for politics. We have to solve problems. The Senator's point is something I experienced as a…
I did not drive to Hawaii. I thank the Senator from New Mexico for that clarification. I appreciate that for the Congressional Record. I do want to say that Hawaii was a paradise, except that it lacked some fundamental things. For one, it…
I will ask one more question and then invite Senator Schatz--who has been the catalytic agent in pulling this all together-- to address this idea of a level playing field and free markets, the subsidy that is given to oil and coal, and the…
We must act quickly for the good of the American people, because we don't want to be back here with postmortems of what could have, should have been done.
The ever growing list of catastrophic failures must be a wake-up call for all of us, including EPA, which does have existing authorities they ought to be using.
We are giving more time and the markup has been changed on that Manchin bill on West Virginia from the 12th of this month to Wednesday, April 2nd, at 11 a.m.
I have written to EPA Administrator McCarthy to request that the failures in the system brought to light in West Virginia be specifically addressed by the President's Working Group.
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