Press Releases

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) urged President Trump to reverse his decision made last month to revoke a safeguard that ensures federal buildings, roads, bridges, and other pieces of infrastructure are built to withstand extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Harvey. The Senators also indicated plans to introduce... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the below statement following Trump’s announcement that he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. This decision means that hundreds of thousands of DREAMers who were brought to this country as kids will be at risk of deportation.  “Today’s decision is a moral catastrophe that should shake us all to the core. The President of the United States has... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Chris Coons (D-DE), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Africa and Global Health Policy subcommittee, released the following joint statement on this morning’s decision by the Kenyan Supreme Court to annul the result of last month’s presidential election, citing irregularities. Booker is the Ranking Member of the Africa and Global Health Policy subcommittee.  “Today’s ruling by the Kenyan Supreme... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to new guidelines issued by the Federal Bureau of Prisons explicitly requiring all BOP facilities to provide incarcerated women access to feminine hygiene products, including tampons and pads, at no cost to inmates. The BOP had previously only broadly required “sanitary products” to be made available for free, and the specific type of products available at no cost at different BOP... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate subcommittee overseeing America's rail infrastructure, today submitted his public comment to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and NJ Transit supporting the construction of a new trans-Hudson rail tunnel as part of the project’s ongoing environmental review process. The third and final public hearing on the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS), which was released in early... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Chris Coons (D-DE), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Africa and Global Health Policy subcommittee, released the following joint statement on yesterday’s election in Kenya. Booker is the Ranking Member of the Africa and Global Health Policy subcommittee. “Credible, free, and fair elections are the cornerstone of a democratic society. As members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Africa and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) along with Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) led a letter signed by more than 50 lawmakers criticizing the Department of Education over its current leadership at the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), saying OCR is abandoning its responsibilities of ensuring equal access to education for all students. The Office is being run by Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tom Carper (D-DE) urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to “immediately implement” long-overdue chemical facility safety rule updates that provide new protections from chemical disasters to first responders, facility workers, and fenceline communities. The updated safeguards – which were supposed to go into effect this past March – are amendments to the Accidental Release Prevention... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led a bicameral letter signed by more than 60 lawmakers to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, challenging a Department of Justice (DOJ) brief arguing that the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect LGBT Americans from discrimination in the workplace. The brief was filed last month in the case of Zarda v. Altitude Express and directly contradicts the Equal Employment... Read More

ASBURY PARK, NJ – In the wake of President Trump’s announcement that he would ban transgender Americans from serving in the military, today U.S. Senator Cory Booker was joined by LGBT advocates at Garden State Equality’s office in Asbury Park to discuss legislative efforts to protect transgender service members. “To hear the thousands of transgender Americans serving our nation with honor and distinction so cavalierly dismissed by our President as a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to bring transparency to small business lending by identifying barriers that prevent women and minority entrepreneurs from starting small businesses. The senators pressed the CFPB to follow through with implementing a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that required the CFPB to collect and make available information about barriers women... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would create a judicial check on the executive branch’s ability to remove a special counsel. Booker first announced he was working on such legislation last Monday.  Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) are cosponsors of the effort. The Special Counsel Independence Protection Act (SCIPA) ensures... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Bernard Sanders (D-VT), and Bob Casey (D-PA) issued the following joint statement in reaction to the preliminary cost estimate of the Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act issued by the Congressional Budget Office: “We are glad to see the independent Congressional Budget Office recognize that the Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act -- which will help lower prescription drug costs for millions of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) today introduced a landmark bill to reverse decades of failed drug policy that has disproportionately impacted communities of color. Booker announced the bill earlier today on Facebook Live.   The Marijuana Justice Act would remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances, making it legal at the federal level. The bill would also incentivize states through federal funds to change their marijuana laws if those laws were shown... Read More

ELMER, NJ – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was joined by New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney in visiting Inspira Health Center in Elmer to tour the facility, meet with staff, and highlight the positive impact of the Affordable Care Act on New Jerseyans.  Today’s visit capped off a whirlwind weekend as Sen. Booker crisscrossed the state listening to the issues that matter most to New Jersyans as part of his 2017 Jersey Summer Road Trip.  “After all the... Read More

BRICK TWP, NJ – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was joined by Brick Township Mayor John Ducey, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato, health professionals, advocates and New Jerseyans in recovery for a roundtable discussion on the heroin and opioid addiction crisis in New Jersey and how the Affordable Care Act has helped expand treatment for individuals battling addiction across our nation. “The key to finding a long-term solution to the opioid crisis is by implementing a... Read More

Newark, NJ – On the heels of a dramatic week in DC ending in a stunning defeat of Senate GOP efforts to repeal the ACA, today U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) will launch his annual summer tour of New Jersey’s 21 counties highlighting the priorities he continues to fight for in the U.S. Senate on behalf of families across the Garden State.  The tour will commence TODAY at 6PM in Hudson County with a public discussion moderated by Insider NJ’s Max Pizzaro at St. Peters... Read More

Burlington, NJ – In the wake of the latest failed Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, today U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was joined by Assemblymen Troy Singleton and Herb Conaway (both LD-07) for a roundtable discussion at Southern Jersey Family Medical Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Burlington, with healthcare professionals and New Jerseyans who were in jeopardy of losing their health coverage as a result of Republican efforts to repeal the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a bill that would restore funding for the nation’s Superfund cleanup program to levels just above the program’s funding in the early 1990s (adjusted for inflation). The Environmental Cleanup Infrastructure Act would provide just over $55 billion – or approximately five percent of any trillion dollar infrastructure package – to clean up toxic Superfund sites and eliminate the growing backlog of abandoned... Read More

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced a bill that enhances and expands sex education programs that empower young people to make healthy, informed decisions throughout their lives. The Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (REHYA) would build upon the success of existing federal sexual health programs and establish the first federally funded comprehensive sex education for young people across the country. It would also ensure that... Read More