Cory Booker

The fundamental thing, all I need to know in life I learned in kindergarten: clean up the mess you made.

Ronald Reagan reauthorized Superfund monies to clean up these messes.

We can prevent these humanitarian disasters if we invest more in good governance, in anticorruption, in the building blocks so these countries can have stable governments.

I am wondering how we can respond and show leadership and expect other countries to follow when the President has made our foreign assistance such a low priority.

I have seen his executive order on immigration, which 100 national security experts, both Republican and Democrats, have condemned as being counterproductive to our national security.

If the United States is not in leadership, the international community is not going to respond.

These savagely cruel practices are not necessary... these are inhumane practices that should be prevented in the United States of America

It is not necessary to do successful management, is that correct?

I think this is outrageous and really hope that my colleagues will carefully study this important Fish and Wildlife rule and decide not to support a CRA.

I don't think we should be allowing the killing of baby animals on our national wildlife refuges; this, to me, does not reflect who we are as a Nation.

I think that this rule is vital, and I actually have a lot of, I will even use the word, love for one of my colleagues who is an Alaskan Senator who saw this more as a sovereignty issue.

I am really grateful that the Committee is holding this hearing. Really, this is significantly urgent work, and I am grateful for the witnesses we have here.

I don't like it when corporations sort of foist their cost, externalize their expenses.

I just love your story, and what a great American story of starting a company, building it out, creating jobs, economic activity.

So you favor the Federal Government not allowing these vehicles to be on the road.

So you insure your trucks for above the minimum $750,000.

Some industries come in and ask for regulations, in other words, to create a Federal standard, so you don't have a patchwork in different states.

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety commends the Subcommittee for convening tomorrow's hearing.

First, as Ranking Member Booker pointed out, after several years of much lower death rates on our highways due to the recession, we are now seeing deaths increase in 2015 and 2016 as the economy picks up steam.

Rolling back nonsensical rules I fully support, but we need to make sure we do this in an intelligently driven way.

I think Chairman Fischer has done a great job of really emphasizing how vital this trucking industry is to our national economy.

This is an important hearing, and I am grateful for all of those who are assembled here.

We need to come together to find solutions. We need to find ways to fix this.

Cory Booker, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security.

We should be committed, as a country, to having much better road safety.