Cory Booker

It is critical that we open up those arteries like a stint on the Northeast Corridor.

I appreciate it could be really economically stimulative; correct?

But as a person with vast business experience, understanding how balance sheets work, people who are concerned about debt to GDP ratio, investments in infrastructure, especially in the region that you and I both know best, you might call…

So I appreciate that. And just succinctly then, you support direct spending by government on infrastructure.

I want to start with the first issue I started with when you came to my office, and that's the issue of infrastructure.

The safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is of serious concern to me.

The United States should engage with the Pakistani military to encourage cooperation against mutual threats.

Pakistan is an important regional partner for the United States.

It is obviously always looking for America's interest and strategic advantage but it is also about American values, values of human rights, values of taking care of poor and marginalized people.

This is probably one of the more important positions on the planet Earth, the one to which you are nominated for.

I really worry that its budget has been cut, the base international affairs budget, which includes funding to State and USAID that has repeatedly been cut around 30 percent, adjusted for inflation, since fiscal year 2010.

Clearly, sharing intelligence with other Muslim-majority nations, cooperating with them, creating those relationships that you say are so important, it is important to counter ISIL.

I introduced legislation last week to eliminate that, potentially.

A lot of the rhetoric coming from the President-elect and others. It really does undermine often our relationships with a lot of our allies.

The great faith. It shows a level of respect and deference that I am sure will serve you well as Secretary of State.

I think it is important that we continue, and I appreciate your commitment that you gave me in the prior round of questioning about your commitment to the mandatory sanctioning of people who carry out human rights violations.

If you look at the North Korean economy, a tremendous amount of it exists and relies upon China.

Even President-elect Trump has criticized Newark Airport saying that our airports are like from a Third World country.

Do you and President-elect Trump support an infrastructure package that will include direct Federal spending?

I appreciate that. And I'm happy to hear that the incoming administration has made clear that putting together a trillion dollar infrastructure package is a priority.

It's estimated that if these tunnels would go down, they would cost about $100 million in lost productivity every single day.

The replacement of the 107-year-old Hudson River tunnels and the Portal Bridge is a crisis for the entire Northeast Corridor.

It's such an honor to be sitting before you right now. Thank you so much for your willingness to serve not once, but twice, in a Presidential administration.

Senator Sessions' record speaks for itself, and I would urge you not to confirm Senator Sessions as Attorney General of the United States.

Each and every Senator who casts a vote to confirm Senator Sessions will be permanently marked as a co-conspirator in an effort to move this country backward.