Cory Booker

This is a new threat and we need the supplemental appropriation to be passed.

If it is critical infrastructure, we have the most dangerous, they say, couple of miles--there are chemical companies, you name it.

DHS also raised our Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grants--UASI vulnerability, moving it from 11 to 7 on the risk index.

I have lost many votes before. This is one that I am very happy to not win, if possible.

I cut 25 percent of my work force while I was there; no government in New Jersey.

I think that all of these people are doing admirable things to stop it, but there is something that is driving this that is different than in any other country.

We are the mass drivers of that consumption on the planet Earth.

The depth of this crisis in our country is astonishing--especially when you realize how unique America is as a country.

So, there are things we can do, right away, that can make a difference with this issue.

The best providers, in my city, who are creating transformative change, taking people from addiction to recovery and from criminality to productivity, are being denied funding.

This is not a human problem. It is an American problem.

You, sir, are not a disaster.

Are we doing anything to be proactive, learning what we have from storms like Jonas and Sandy?

But don't you think a rebalancing, seeing what you are doing after the fact, that it could have maybe even prevented if we had done work?

There is incredible evidence showing that a dollar spent for mitigations before a disaster strikes saves about four bucks in the aftermath.

I cannot say how grateful I am and my office is since, literally, the week that I arrived, in fact before I was sworn in, in the special election, we began working closely with FEMA and then the SBA on the urgencies around Sandy.

I am also proud to be on this Committee and to be able to work on behalf of small business owners and Americans impacted by natural disasters all over our country.

I am confident that our businesses will recover. I am confident that our State will stand stronger than ever before.

I am hopeful that the changes within the SBA can make the program strong and the improvements that are included in the RISE Act can really help to make sure that after such weather events, New Jersey, as well as other areas across our…

The passage of the RISE Act... really has helped New Jersey communities to heal.

I could not be prouder of the way that the people in our State really pulled together to demonstrate New Jersey's strength.

I really appreciate your leadership on the RISE Act.

I believe that we are very vulnerable because of the Visa Waiver Program.

It is outrageous, to me, that they are sharing communication across the Atlantic Ocean, but not within Europe.

I love that you said it is a matter of when--not if--and I do believe that that is the case.