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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.

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Mar 31, 2025

I hate to answer the question this way, but America will regret this day. The American people will regret this day. All of us will regret this. All of us will.

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Mar 31, 2025

Collins, Murkowski, and McCain, I think, took a lot of courage. They were getting a lot of pressure from the White House. John McCain was viciously attacked afterwards. But his private conversations with Members and you, Senator Schumer--I…

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Mar 31, 2025

The bald-headed caucus. But the one time you shifted gears into being my pastor and my friend, we prayed together last night. And most Americans identify in our faith--the Christian faith. And you and I know--I would yield for you to ask a…

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Mar 31, 2025

The mere fact that you can quote Alexis de Tocqueville-- you have got me. You have me.

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Mar 31, 2025

I want to respond deeply. I, first, want to thank my colleague for being here in the morning. She is one of my colleagues that I confided in when I told her it was enough for me, I needed to do something different, and she readily…

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Mar 31, 2025

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is my veterans book. This is what I was reading from earlier. And everything you are saying is right, and it is such an insult. I read stories from our veterans. It is such an insult to the highest…

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Mar 31, 2025

Yes, I am. That country that has shed more blood than any of our allies, side-by-side, fighting with America is Canada--is Canada.

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Mar 31, 2025

I am so grateful for the question because that is what we said we are here about. We are here to try to elevate the voices of people affected by what they are doing to our government. And, frankly, as they cut the Department of Education…

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Mar 31, 2025

We saw young artists, business people. You are this person who says these words over and over again, more than any Republican or Democrat: ``Buy American, buy American''; and created so many jobs in your State. We were in some packed…

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Mar 31, 2025

I will give a short answer to your question, then, which is the irony--the irony that this President is remaining quiet about folks that are violating international law in many ways. So I think it is absurd, and you are right. It is…

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Mar 31, 2025

And I have been trying, as much as I can, during these last 12 hours, to read stories of Republicans.

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Mar 31, 2025

I appreciate the Democratic leader's question. I think that all 100 of us in this body are getting what I have gotten. I can't go to the grocery store. I can't walk my neighborhood. I just did a travel around the country to do what a lot…

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Mar 31, 2025

And you all put tariffs on us. And I remember the quiet, the silence around that committee table. I felt like, whoa, this is such an ally, such a friend, such a consistent ally of us throughout the hardest difficult times in history, never…

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Mar 31, 2025

Those leaders are no longer around. I read this, and I get excited by the possibility for our generation and for the new leaders who are emerging in America. They have to. It is their obligation to not let the dream die and to redeem the…

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Mar 31, 2025

I am familiar. I have mentioned it earlier in these last 15 hours, so thank you.

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Mar 31, 2025

Yes, Senator Schumer. To tell a family to just double up or triple up drives up their costs. It is often that the elder who is living with them who might have dementia demands care. So the family member who is caring for them has to…

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Mar 31, 2025

I thank you, Senator Coons, by your strength of voice, by your tone, by the colleague and citizen that you invoke. You are saying the answer with strength, my friend. How do we judge our Nation? What measure do we judge America? Is it by…

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Mar 31, 2025

Thank you for the question, Senator Klobuchar. I love that you are bringing it back to real people and what effect it is having. What you are spelling out is something that is really important. There is a strategy that they have expressly…

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Mar 31, 2025

I think I need to. I will yield to a question. I will yield to a question while retaining the floor. And I thank my brother, I thank my friend who has now stood with me for almost 11 hours.

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Mar 31, 2025

Oh, man. I have known you for like 25 years. I wanted to talk about you, but you are being so insistent, I will reward your insistence and say I yield for a question while retaining the floor.

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Mar 31, 2025

Our Juneteenth seder is coming up. I am going to put this on as you have it on. I think about Edan Alexander and all those who are suffering. I am just so grateful for our friendship and what we have done against anti- Semitism, about what…

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Mar 31, 2025

Yes, yes, yes, it does. I mean, you put forth this litany where what we have to ask ourselves is at what point do my colleagues in the House and the Senate and the Republican Party say enough? Enough. God bless John Kennedy for calling out…

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Mar 31, 2025

I am so grateful you brought this up--and especially all the work we had to do when I was elected 12, 13 years ago. One of the earliest things I did was meet with women veterans in my State and heard these awful stories about how long it…

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Mar 31, 2025

I actually believe you would do a 5-hour question to try to help me power through. Senator, we have been at this for--

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Mar 31, 2025

So every time you ask me the question, we have to go through the same thing. I am slightly familiar, yes, because you talked about it, but I would be really happy if you ask me another question and you filled in some gaps.

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