Press Releases

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) issued the below statement following today’s vote on President Trump and Senate Republicans’ latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act: “Tonight is a victory for the millions of Americans who will not lose health coverage because Senate Republicans failed to pass their latest disgraceful attempt at a health repeal bill.” “This is also a victory for the thousands upon thousands of Americans across the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s announcement that he would ban transgender individuals from serving in the military. There are an estimated 15,000 transgender individuals currently serving on active duty or in the Guard or Reserve forces. “The thousands of transgender Americans serving in our military are heroes – just as all of our... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following a new report on the possible misuse of taxpayer dollars at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) asked HHS Secretary Tom Price to provide information about the Department’s advertising and public relations efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and promote pending legislation before Congress. In their letter, the senators ask Secretary... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker and U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr (NJ-09) introduced legislation that would provide informal, unpaid family caregivers resources and support to help in providing quality care for their loved ones.  “As the health coverage for millions of Americans continues to hang in the balance, we must do all we can to support the most vulnerable among us and those who care for them,” said Sen. Booker.  “Family... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement: “The independent Congressional Budget Office just issued Senate Republicans another stark warning: the bill they’re voting on next week would throw our economy into chaos and disrupt health insurance for tens of millions of Americans. “32 million Americans would be left without health coverage. Insurance premiums across the board would double in the next decade. Medicaid would be decimated by a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) pressed more than a dozen bank CEOs today on their overdraft fee programs, requesting more information on their current practices to encourage participation in so-called “overdraft protection.”  Banks offer overdraft protection to allow account holders to make purchases with a debit card even if they don't have sufficient funds in their account, while charging a fee for the service. But a 2014 study by Pew found that... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) met with housing advocates and New Jerseyans affected by tenant blacklisting to discuss legislation he will introduce this week to reform tenant screening practices.  Landlords in New Jersey and across the nation are using tenant screening reports prepared by third-party reporting agencies as a legal means to discriminate against potential tenants for simply asserting their legal rights.  Sen. Booker’s legislation would... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement: “We owe tonight’s victory of compassion and good policy over the latest Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act to countless ordinary Americans who made an extraordinary effort to speak up and speak out against a craven attempt to leave millions of Americans without coverage and millions more with higher cost, lower quality insurance. “President Trump and Congressional Republicans... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement:  “Fiddling around the edges hasn’t changed the fundamental fact that Senate Republicans’ craven healthcare repeal bill will result in millions of Americans losing health coverage, premiums and deductibles for good coverage going up, and millions more Americans being left with worse coverage that may not even pay for the health services they need. “President Trump promised Americans... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) along with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chairwoman Judy Chu (D-CA) today introduced the Anti-Voter Suppression Act, a bicameral bill that would repeal President Trump’s Executive Order establishing an “election integrity” commission to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Kamala Harris (D-CA) today introduced a landmark bill to reform the way women are treated behind bars. The Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act would make a series of common-sense reforms to how the federal prison system treats incarcerated women in order to reduce the negative impact incarceration has on the family members of women behind bars, especially their children, and better... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) are leading a bipartisan group of ten Senators in urging the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to work with the UN Secretary-General to pursue an independent special investigation into the suspicious deaths of two UN investigators killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in March.   American Michael Sharp and Swedish-Chilean dual citizen Zaida Catalan were murdered in the Kasai region of the DRC... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker urged the New Jersey Department of State to reject efforts by the Trump Administration to obtain sensitive voter information from New Jerseyans. Last week, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity requested state-level voter data including names of all registrants, dates of birth, addresses and partial Social Security numbers in an effort to investigate President Trump’s widely unsubstantiated claims of voter... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), in coordination with Representatives Cedric Richmond, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Judy Chu, today led the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus in voicing serious concerns about the Trump Administration’s lack of commitment to protecting the civil rights of the nation’s students.   In a letter sent to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today, the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) voiced serious concerns over reports that more than 400 National Guard Bureau (NGB) employees, including several in New Jersey, suffered massive pay cuts under a new contract awarded by NGB in March. In a letter to General Joseph L. Lenygel, Sen. Booker cited the severe hardship placed on families as a result of the new contract and requested information pertaining to the wage cuts.   “Amid growing trends across... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement today ahead of the implementation of the next iteration of President Trump’s Muslim travel ban, set to take effect tonight at 8PM ET. Booker is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  “Each cruel iteration of President Trump’s Muslim travel ban has been at odds with America’s most fundamental values and ideals, a repudiation of the idea that America is a land of... Read More

Washington, DC – An amendment authored by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) that seeks to get tough on racial, ethnic, and religious profiling of passengers by airline employees was unanimously adopted by a key Senate committee today. The legislation has now been incorporated into the must-pass Federal Aviation Administration authorization bill, which is expected to be advanced by the full Senate this fall before a key September 30th deadline. “Examples of airline passengers being... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a bill that would use the power of the purse to reduce incarceration and crime at the same time. The Reverse Mass Incarceration Act attempts to counter the archaic and ineffective “tough on crime” policies coming from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and is supported by a wide range of civil rights advocacy groups and proponents of criminal justice reform.   Instead of... Read More