Cory Booker

We also need a long-term strategy that bolsters and supports all sectors of the maritime industry.

As we lose U.S. mariners, we lose sealift capacity to support U.S. military during times of War and these national disasters.

For many decades, the U.S. has relied on the U.S. Merchant Marine with its fleet of commercial vessels and crew of U.S. mariners to assist the military during times of war and national emergency.

New Jersey is home to the Port of New York and New Jersey--which I think should be renamed the Port of New Jersey and New York.

The country's port vessels and merchant marine forces, we know, as has been said, are critical to this nation's economy.

Investing in our maritime infrastructure is critical for economic growth.

I applaud the FCC's actions to ensure that incarcerated persons can stay connected to their families and ultimately rehabilitate into society.

We have 5 million households in this country with school age kids who can't do their homework because they don't have broadband access.

I just want to know if we are getting a good return on our investment.

The partnership that I had with the esteemed Roger Wicker

We appreciate you very much. You have a fine reputation there because of that.

Member of the Cory Caucus, proud to be a member of the Cory Caucus in the Senate.

Thank you very much. I am really grateful for Chairman Fischer for hosting this and for Roger Wicker for working to make this possible.

I am concerned that eliminating reporting requirements on the zero catch fish populations will result in missing things like bycatch or accidental take of the most dangerously low fish populations.

I am pleased that our region was the first to use the coral habitat protection authority to protect and preserve 38,000 square miles of Federal waters.

In October, several of my Senate colleagues and I sent a letter to your agency regarding the overfishing of the dusky sharks.

The number of domestic fish stocks listed as overfished or subject to overfishing has dropped to an all-time low

I just want to say if we could get a formal response to the letter that we sent with part of that strategy, I would really appreciate it.

I am really, really grateful to Chairman Sullivan for having this hearing and for his leadership on this subject

I am concerned about the problem of bycatch in some of our Nation's fisheries.

The success of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act has been considerable to date

Even beyond water main breaks, we are just leaching water out.

I cannot emphasize enough, after going to visit New Jersey and seeing the storm we just had, where in some areas the flooding was worse than Super Storm Sandy; to see people lose their homes, to see people who have had their livelihoods…

Lead poisoning is not just something that happened in Flint, Michigan; it is happening based upon aged infrastructure all across our Nation, endangering young people, endangering elderly, endangering health and safety, particularly in poor…

It is the most fiscally conservative thing I can think to do, which is to make a small investment up front to prevent from having to make a massive investment later on.