Cory Booker

I obviously look forward to hearing more as it develops.

I want to know, what kind of sort of responses are you getting from students?

In the past few years, the public and private sectors have helped fund more than $2 billion in infrastructure improvements at the Port of New York and New Jersey to expand the region's economic capacity.

Overall, New Jersey's ports and the trade industries that rely on them, employed 285,000 people in New Jersey in 2014, and generated $60 billion in family incomes and business revenues for New Jersey's economy.

New Jersey is home to the Port of New York and New Jersey, which has moved more than 120 million tons of cargo annually in recent years, and is the busiest port in the East Coast.

The country's ports, vessels, and mariners are critical to our Nation's economic growth, military preparedness, and disaster relief efforts.

The issue for us right now is not the speed with which we are getting this done, it is waiting for the funding.

Your leadership and that of others who have been able to shrink dramatically the usual time it gets to get reviews, everything from the early engineering specs to the environmental reviews, has been extraordinary

Getting this project done is so important.

This is a case study, in my opinion, of us going from an enlightened American age where we invested in infrastructure and knew it was essential for jobs, essential for economic productivity, to what is a nightmare era.

I have become obsessed for the last 3 years of my life with getting this northeast corridor fixed and getting this Gateway Project done.

But so far we have seen no increase in or concern of migration, refugee flows out of Libya that could jeopardize Italy, Greece stability?

Is it then in the national security interest of the United States--a concern of our national security interest--that there are Russian special forces, if they are in Libya indeed?

If Russia were to do that--open source reports talked about the special forces deployed in Libya--what role do you think these special forces, should they be there, be playing?

Is there a concern that Russian special forces or activities could spur a refugee crisis or migration again into Greece or Italy?

That is problematic for me on a number of levels.

And another thing that sort of disturbs me is that we seem to be operating under an AUMF from 2001.

Whatever the strategy is, once this administration presents one, part of that is essential that it is us doing that kind of civil society investments and building that the State Department is critically able to do.

I mean, it is very shocking to me the sort of budget that they have outlined in light of what you seem to be indicating as a prescription to ultimately bring stability back to Libya.

Shark fins have no nutritional value whatsoever, and they do serious damage to that species.

Will you just keep me informed on the progress on investigating these outstanding cases?

We are one United States, we are interwoven, integrated lifelines whose arteries are our rail systems, our intermodal freight operations, but also general aviation.

I am one of these people that is appalled that we are still doing aviation in this country with 1940s technology.

General aviation is of extreme importance to my state as well.

I was really grateful that Ranking Member Cantwell and other Democratic leaders released a $1 trillion infrastructure blueprint that included $30 billion in funding and upgrading and improving our Nation's airports.