Cory Booker

Do you agree that it is important for Congress to include this checkoff reform in the farm bill?

There is really no such program for them.

Finding ways to recenter farmers and farm families that have been on these farms for so long has got to be the key spirit of the work that we do on the farm bill.

I am leading it Senator Mike Lee, which would reform our Federal checkoff programs.

I have been stunned. I have traveled from North Carolina to Alabama to the Midwest and then across New Jersey.

This, to me, is a crisis in our country and one of the reasons why farmers are getting less and less in terms of the percentage of the consumer dollars.

A 2022 University of Colorado study projected that in the first year following a nationwide abortion ban, the number of maternal deaths would increase 13 percent.

I've been working on maternal mortality issues since I came to the Senate and since I discovered how stunning the numbers are in our Nation.

U.S. women are more likely to die during or after pregnancy than anywhere else in the world.

The United States is only 1 of 13 countries in the entire planet where maternal mortality rates... are worse today than it was 25 years ago.

it is important that we protect SNAP.

I strongly support this idea that the established PEPFAR infrastructure was so critical during the COVID pandemic in helping to meet a lot of the challenges.

Getting a clean reauthorization is really, I think, something that is urgent, given the light of the progress we have made and the challenges that we still have.

I strongly support this idea that the established PEPFAR infrastructure was so critical during the COVID pandemic in helping to meet a lot of the challenges.

it is important that we protect SNAP.

the Ugandan Government's passage of legislation that criminalizes the LGBTQ community is really, really concerning.

Getting a clean reauthorization is really, I think, something that is urgent, given the light of the progress we have made and the challenges that we still have.

the Ugandan Government's passage of legislation that criminalizes the LGBTQ community is really, really concerning.

SNAP as a health intervention

SNAP as a health intervention

Getting a clean reauthorization is really, I think, something that is urgent, given the light of the progress we have made and the challenges that we still have.

it is important that we protect SNAP.

The Ugandan Government's passage of legislation that criminalizes the LGBTQ community is really, really concerning.

I strongly support this idea that the established PEPFAR infrastructure was so critical during the COVID pandemic in helping to meet a lot of the challenges.

So, officially, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The objection is heard. The Senator from Utah.