Press Releases

PARAMUS, NJ – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) joined Congressman Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-05) and state and local leaders to reintroduce legislation related to school bus safety, Miranda’s Law. “Congress has the opportunity to act swiftly and decisively to protect our nation’s children,” said Senator Booker. “We shouldn’t wait for another tragedy to strike––like the one that took the lives of ten year old Miranda Vargas and Jennifer Williamson, a beloved Paramus teacher, eight long years... Read More

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) hosted a press conference alongside New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, members of New Jersey’s Congressional delegation, and union members affected by President Trump’s withholding of federal funds for the nation’s largest, most significant public infrastructure project, the Gateway Tunnel Project. Work on the tunnel ceased today due to President Trump’s failure to release funding, and approximately 1,000 union members were laid off. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) along with Congressmen Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA), reintroduced the AI Grand Challenges Act, a bipartisan, bicameral bill to harness the promise of artificial intelligence to solve complex problems across a range of sectors, including health, energy, environment, national security, materials science, and cybersecurity – as well as address AI system-specific challenges like... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Federal Grant Neutrality Act, legislation designed to stop the politicization of Department of Justice (DOJ) federal grants and prevent the DOJ from imposing unfair conditions on jurisdictions represented by Democrats. The bill ensures that grants cannot be withheld to punish jurisdictions for refusing to enforce partisan federal immigration... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined his colleagues in calling on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to immediately resign, citing her deplorable leadership of the department. In a letter led by Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), Booker and U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) emphasized how the horrifying conduct of immigration agents in Minnesota has led to a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), alongside members of New Jersey and New York’s Congressional Delegations, sent a letter urging President Trump to release the previously allocated federal funding for the Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project, the nation's largest and most urgent infrastructure project. The legislators wrote: “Every day, the tunnels carry hundreds of thousands of passengers and commuters and serve as a vital, although bottlenecked, link between the Northeast and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senators Cory Booker, James Lankford (R-OK), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the Administration to quickly strengthen and expand efforts that help the Iranian people maintain access to the internet as protests against the regime grow and Tehran imposes widespread digital blackouts. “We write today in defense of America’s long-standing and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, along with every Senate Judiciary Democrat in sending a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging the Department to heed the calls of career prosecutors and open a civil rights investigation into the death of Ms. Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Katie Britt (R-AL) announced the reintroduction of a bipartisan resolution to officially designate January 23 as Maternal Health Awareness Day. The resolution emphasizes the importance of raising public awareness of maternal health outcomes and promotes initiatives to address and eliminate its disparities. “In the richest country in the world, it is unacceptable that giving birth in America remains one of the most dangerous... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced the reintroduction of the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act alongside U.S. Representatives LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez and New Jersey immigrant rights advocates. The bill would end the use of private, for-profit detention facilities, prohibit the practice of detaining families, and ensure due process. It would also repeal mandatory detention and increase federal oversight, accountability, and transparency of the immigration... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa & Global Health Policy, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released the following statement after the elections held in Uganda on January 15, 2026. “Uganda’s elections – like the recent elections in Tanzania - were a hollow exercise, staged to legitimize President Yoweri Museveni’s seventh term and four decades in power. “But even more so... Read More

In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote an op-ed published in The New Jersey Star-Ledger calling for no new ICE detention centers in New Jersey. Yesterday, Booker visited an ICE facility in Roxbury where he witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions detainees are living in, and asserts that we need sweeping immigration reform. See for yourself: NJ.COM Roxbury’s Fight is Our Fight: No New ICE Detention Centers in New Jersey By:... Read More

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – This afternoon, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) traveled to Morris County, NJ. He toured the site of a proposed ICE detention facility in Roxbury and met with local leaders in Morristown to discuss an ICE raid at a local laundromat earlier this month in which multiple Morristown residents and a high school student were detained. “What I saw in Roxbury, and what I heard in Morristown this afternoon from local leaders is truly heartbreaking. DHS and ICE have come into our... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. —Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting information about the conditions under which a sanctioned senior commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was present in... Read More

In case you missed it, MS NOW highlighted how under U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), leadership of the Democratic Strategic Communications Committee, Senate Democrats’ digital communication surged in 2025, leading to a 430% growth in online engagement and over 20 million new followers across Senate Democrats’ social media platforms. See for yourself: MS NOW Cory Booker touts a ‘monstrous leap’ for Senate Democrats on social mediaBy: Ali Vitali January 19, 2026 Key points: If you’ve seen more... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and several Senate colleagues in introducing the Power for the People Act, legislation aimed at curbing rising electricity costs by addressing the enormous energy demands of rapidly expanding data centers. Amid the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI), corporations and big technology companies’ build out of data centers has exploded in the past decade and is projected to continue to rapidly increase.... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) reintroduced legislation that would ensure prison disaster plans protect the health, safety, and rights of incarcerated individuals during emergencies. The Correctional Facility Disaster Preparedness Act would require the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to submit annual damage reports after disasters, require the National Institute of Correction (NIC) to hold field hearings on how to better incorporate considerations for... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the Credit Card Fairness Act, legislation that would put into statute the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s popular $8 cap on credit card late fees. Consumers currently pay $14 billion per year in credit card late fees, which pads the profits of the biggest banks. The standard $30 to $41 late fee is up to five times higher than the cost for banks of collecting late... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the fatal killing of Minneapolis resident, Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) today announced the introduction of two accountability bills to strengthen federal law enforcement standards. The legislation would establish minimum hiring and training standards for all federal law enforcement officers and require the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by federal officers... Read More