Press Releases

WASHINGTON– U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) today introduced the Access to Birth Control (ABC) Act, legislation to ensure that any woman with a valid prescription is not denied or intimidated when requesting birth control or emergency contraception at pharmacies. “Sadly, in some states individual pharmacists are putting their personal views before their professional obligation, and are choosing to deny women access to birth control,” Sen. Booker said. “The Access to Birth... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Barbra Mikulski (D-MD) today introduced the Law Enforcement Officers’ Equity Act, legislation that would ensure all federal law enforcement officers receive the retirement benefits they deserve for their service. Due to the level of training required and greater danger present in their profession, Congress determined that people in federal law enforcement positions should receive higher salaries and enhanced retirement benefits compared... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With the summer’s busy travel season rapidly approaching and lines growing ever-longer at the nation’s commercial airports, today U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) were joined by twenty of their Senate colleagues in calling for increased funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help address long wait times and better ensure... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted to approve the bipartisan Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA), which would create a new licensing framework for advanced reactors at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  Booker, a chief sponsor of the bill, applauded the committee’s vote for NEIMA in addition to a number of Booker-cosponsored bills that... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC –  Today, U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy urging the EPA to coordinate additional action from the federal government to reduce emissions from ports and the freight network to help alleviate the impact on lower-income and vulnerable communities. “Across the United States, 13 million... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – Today, U.S Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez (both D-NJ) renewed their call to hold polluters responsible for the cleanup of contaminated sites in New Jersey and across the country following the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release this week of a proposed plan to address groundwater contaminated with hexavalent chromium at the Garfield Groundwater Contamination Superfund site in Garfield, New... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez (both D-N.J.) today introduced a bill to rename the Deptford Township, New Jersey post office the “Savatore S. Corma II Post Office Building” in honor of the sacrifice of First Lieutenant Salvatore S. Corma II — a United States Army soldier and native of Wenonah, New Jersey, who was tragically killed in action in Afghanistan six years ago.   “First Lieutenant Salvatore S. Corma II paid the ultimate... Read More

HACKENSACK, NJ – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez led a statewide summit with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials, Acting State Health Commissioner Cathleen Bennett, and local medical professionals to discuss New Jersey’s preparedness for preventing the spread of the Zika virus.  New Jersey currently has nine confirmed cases of Zika out of more than 380 nationwide — all related to travel originating... Read More

WASHINGTON – The bipartisan authors of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123) today announced revisions to the legislation to broaden bipartisan support for criminal justice reform. The bill is led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, Assistant Majority Leader John Cornyn, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy, and Senators Mike Lee and Sheldon Whitehouse.   The revised bill is now cosponsored by a... Read More

(Washington, D.C.) – Today Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), joined Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 16 of their Democratic colleagues to introduce the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, legislation to classify “conversion therapy” as a fraudulent practice that would be illegal under the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority. This harmful practice has been widely discredited by nearly all... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, during National Reentry Week, U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced the At-Risk Youth Medicaid Protection Act to ensure that children who spend time in the juvenile justice system continue to receive much-needed health care coverage and treatments after their release from custody. Many children in the juvenile justice system rely on Medicaid, but too many states automatically terminate their Medicaid enrollment, causing serious gaps in... Read More

  WASHINGTON – This morning, the Senate Commerce Committee approved bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). The bill addresses the future impact of new connected technology, known as the “Internet of Things.” This legislation, known as S. 2607, the Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act, builds upon the senators’ resolution, which... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Scott (R-SC) and Congressmen Pat Tiberi (R-OH) and Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced the Investing in Opportunity Act to help revitalize economically distressed communities by facilitating new incentives for investment in those areas. Currently, more than 50 million Americans live in a distressed community, and American investors have trillions of dollars of inactive capital that, if reinvested, could be used as an important new source... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez (both D-NJ) announced they were successful in helping to stop the proposed installation of a mooring buoy for commercial barges in the Hudson River just north of Ellis Island and east of Liberty State Park, just one day after  urging the Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to consider the probable adverse impacts of the project. The Army Corps has confirmed that the... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez (both D-NJ) urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Cops) to consider the probable adverse impacts of a permit application before the agency proposing the installation of a mooring buoy for commercial barges in the Hudson River just north of Ellis Island and east of Liberty State Park. In a letter to Col. David Caldwell, the Commander of Army Corp’s New York District, Booker and Menendez cited the... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, today introduced a Senate measure to encourage active lifestyles for children across America by designating May 21 National Kids to Parks Day.   The sixth annual Kids to Parks Day kicks off a summer-long series of events at local, state and national parks. Kids to Parks Day began in... Read More

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) introduced legislation to reauthorize the Maritime Administration (MARAD) at the Department of Transportation. The bill, known as S. 2829 the Maritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act of 2017, recognizes the important role of America’s maritime transportation system and takes critical steps to improve the management of MARAD.   Importantly, the bill also strengthens... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Democrats introduced a broad-based new plan today that strengthens the federal government’s role in water infrastructure investment, lead remediation and drinking water protection, and a provision co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to help school districts across the country test their drinking water for potential lead contamination is a key component. “Under no circumstance should the health and safety of our children be jeopardized by... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) today urged the Department of Commerce to take steps to leverage the connecting of technologies known as the Internet of Things (IoT) for the benefit of consumers, businesses, and the government. In a joint letter to the Department of Commerce, the senators expressed their concern that U.S. agencies may not be taking a holistic view of how to facilitate and... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) joined Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), in praising the passage of the Brownfields reauthorization as part of S.2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, which passed by a vote of 85 to 12 today.  This bipartisan amendment would reauthorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)... Read More