Cory Booker

It is important that the DOT continue to push this?

This Committee I think functions well when we have a direct line of communications.

I hope that we'll have your commitment that you will reach out and work with Members of both parties.

What it says is in order to build a wall on the Mexican border, we're going to eviscerate the maritime wall, the U.S. Coast Guard, 14 percent cut.

I think the time might be right for us to consider a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

I know the Democrats have released a blueprint that outlines a $1 trillion investment that I believe we need to make.

This has to be a Republican and Democratic bipartisan effort.

But as we delay this work, delay making adequate investments in our aging infrastructure, it actually costs more and more and more money.

Twenty-five percent of our bridges are structurally deficient, but this one crossing in and of itself portends of a tremendous opportunity to expand our economy to increase efficiencies, to help businesses grow.

I believe that if we fail to make infrastructure investments, we're going to run into catastrophes as well in terms of the infrastructure and the potential for bad things to happen.

We are not a D-plus nation, we're an A-plus nation, and we should have an infrastructure that reflects that.

The American Society of Civil Engineers... gave the United States infrastructure a D-plus.

We in America, are woefully underinvesting in our infrastructure, especially in comparison to our peers in China or in Western Europe.

It's a solemn and sacred commitment you make when you step forward to serve your country, and I'm grateful for your willingness to do so.

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I think this subcommittee can play an important role in bringing an institutional framework of the U.S.

The cooperation that I had with the Governor of Chihuahua on issues relating to crime, on issues relating to heroin addiction, issues relating to immigration was exceptional.

NAFTA created a lot of jobs along our border, good jobs, good high paying jobs.

Six million American jobs depend on U.S. trade with Mexico according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Not a single terrorist act has been committed in the United States by anyone that entered via the Mexican border.

The last time a nation tried to wall itself off in East Berlin in the 1940s, that did not turn out so well.

I just want to say for all of this talk in the executive branch and the legislative branch about investing in homeland security, this is about protecting our homeland from toxic threats to families and children.

So this is a matter of the U.S. Government, which made this mess, and we are not investing in cleaning up the mess we made.

When you remediate these sites, then they actually create economic opportunity for communities.

We are missing an opportunity to do right by the children of America, pregnant women, elderly.