Cory Booker: Jeanine Pirro Becoming U.S. Attorney Is A 'Deep Insult' To Washington, D.C.

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) voiced opposition to Jeanine Pirro, nominee to be U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C.

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00:01Senator Volker.

00:03Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:04I think if I have my facts correct, I'm the only one of the 100 senators that's actually

00:08born in the District of Columbia.

00:10My parents came here after college, met here, were for many, many years a part of this city

00:16and a part of this community.

00:17They moved back here after I left for graduate school and again rejoined the city that they

00:23love.

00:25I feel very deeply that Washington, D.C. should be a state.

00:29They have, literally have four, the four other states have similar populations.

00:36We had a revolution in this country for this very idea that we should not have taxation

00:41without representation.

00:42They have no senator.

00:44They have no one to speak up for their interests.

00:46They have no one to speak up for their values.

00:51No one to work in a cooperative fashion to make sure that the people in some of the most

00:56important positions in their community actually reflect that community.

01:02To me, this is yet another deep insult to the dignity and the decency of the people of

01:10Washington, D.C.

01:11It is deeply offensive to the people who have called this community home for generations.

01:17We, as a body, should have extra care for this population when it comes to positions like

01:27this.

01:27We, as a body, should, in the spirit of our founding documents and our founding ideals,

01:34should really think twice before we push someone on this population that is so violative

01:41of that population's interests.

01:44This candidate, this nominee, we've heard from my colleagues all the ways in which this

01:51person has not earned such a position.

01:54We have an obligation spelled out clearly in the Article I branch of our Constitution that

02:02we should advise and consent.

02:04This, to me, is insulting to a population that deserves much better from this body, and

02:09I'm sorry that we're moving forward.

02:12Okay.

02:12Thank you, Senator Booker.

02:13We do not want you to hear how we need a federal prosecutor.

02:18We need a federal...

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