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Newsweek reports:
Senator Cory Booker gave a brief but lively endorsement on the Senate floor of a proposal about defunding the police in a video that has gone viral on social media. The New Jersey Democrat was animated on Tuesday when he teased Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), whose amendment to the Democrats’ 2022 budget resolution would cut federal funding to local governments that defund law enforcement.
After Tuberville sat down, Booker added a jolt of energy to proceedings with a light-hearted riff on how the GOP portrays the Democrats’ stance on law enforcement and some gentle mockery of the Alabama lawmaker. “Madam President, I am so excited,” said Booker as he clapped his hands together. “This is a gift. If it wasn’t a complete abdication of Senate procedures … I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama.”
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“This is a gift,” Cory Booker says in an animated speech praising Tommy Tuberville’s non-binding amendment to punish localities that defund the police.
“I am sure I will see no political ads attacking anybody here over defund the police.”
It passed 99-0, all Dems voted for it. pic.twitter.com/GUqAfcSlxH
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 11, 2021
“If it wasn’t complete abdication of Senate procedures and esteem, I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama,” Booker said in his speech.
Then, during the vote, he did just that: pic.twitter.com/hRmrcrj3bg
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 11, 2021
Cory Booker just woke the chamber up, shouting in support of Tuberville’s amendment against defunding the police.
Booker says every senator should also make clear they want “to fund the police, believes in God, country, and apple pie”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) August 10, 2021
VIRAL MOMENT: Cory Booker gives a highly energetic response to Tommy Tuberville’s “scurrilous” defund the police accusation in elated Senate floor remarks: “I am so excited!… If it wasn’t complete abdication of Senate procedures, I would walk over there and hug my colleague!” pic.twitter.com/FAIdZnkxTu
— Forbes (@Forbes) August 11, 2021