Press Releases

NEWARK, NJ – On the second day of his 2024 summer road trip, U.S. Senator Cory Booker made stops in Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, and Atlantic Counties. Booker began his day in Salem County, where h e toured Larchmont Farms, a 12th generation family farm that grows peaches, as well as nectarines, plums, cherries, and apples. “In Washington, I’m fighting every day to advance policies that support family farmers and specialty crop farmers who help power the rural economy of New Jersey,” said... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) began the 2024 edition of his annual New Jersey Summer Road Trip with stops in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, and Burlington counties. In Hunterdon County, Booker visited the Snyder Research & Extension Farm, a farm used by Rutgers Agricultural Extension for research on the soil, climate conditions, and crops of New Jersey. The Snyder Research and Extension Farm initiates and disseminates research of soil and climate conditions... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. –  Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced his 2024 Jersey Summer Road Trip, a series of stops highlighting New Jersey’s 21 counties and his commitment to fighting – and delivering – for the state’s priorities in Washington. Booker’s road trip will focus on his efforts to secure congressionally directed funding for critical projects, address legislative priorities, and support local job creators, businesses, organizations, and communities. The road trip is scheduled to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) along with Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), sent a letter to Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), calling for robust investment into the Metabolic Clinical Research Unit (MCRU) of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, which conducts high-quality research on diet-related disease. “The... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) helped secure $72.5 million for a project in New Jersey to make the state’s coast more resilient to climate change and other coastal hazards. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended the project, which encompasses 16 coastal New Jersey counties, for federal funding. The awards are being made under the Biden Administration’s Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, a competitive, $575... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Laphonza Butler (D-CA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced the reintroduction of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2024, the most comprehensive bill to reform law enforcement and strengthen police accountability in our country’s history. The sweeping legislation was first... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), along with Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, expressing their strong support for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) proposal to transfer marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. –  U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) applauded the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for awarding $53 million in funding for 18 airport-related infrastructure grants to improve New Jersey’s airports.  The grants are part of a larger $427 million grant package for 245 airport-related infrastructure grants across 39 states. The projects are funded under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked the bipartisan tax deal, which includes an expansion of the Child Tax Credit. Booker was a key partner in the successful effort to expand the Child Tax Credit for 2021, and has been pushing for a renewal of the expansion ever since. “Once again, Senate Republicans have proven that they have no interest in policies that would put more money in the pockets of working families.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), along with Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA-07), Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), led colleagues in a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam, expressing strong support for CFTC’s proposed guidance for voluntary carbon markets and urging the Commission to implement the final guidance as rigorously as possible.  “Like any... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued the following statement after the United States Department of Agriculture announced that financial assistance payments had been disbursed to farmers who previously suffered discrimination by the department: “In order to address the well-documented history of discrimination over the past century by the USDA against Black farmers, I fought to include $2.2 billion in the Inflation... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senator U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced the Prescription Drug Affordability and Access Act, legislation to systematically change the way prescription drugs are priced in order to reduce drug costs for Americans and increase access to the medications they need. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joined him as an original cosponsor.  The bill would create an independent agency—the Bureau of Prescription Drug Affordability and Access—tasked with conducting... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement condemning Bangladeshi security forces for their use of force and violence against student protesters. The security forces involved in these horrific acts include a paramilitary unit whose leaders have faced U.S. sanctions over human rights abuses.“In recent weeks, thousands of students... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  After the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned the 40-year-old Chevron deference doctrine, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Stop Corporate Capture Act (SCCA). The SCCA codifies the Chevron doctrine and modernizes and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement: “Prime Minister Netanyahu will perhaps be remembered as one of the worst leaders in Israel’s history. I’ve long had serious disagreements with his actions and those of his ultra-right wing governing coalition — from their actions to erode Israel’s democratic institutions, to their allowance of illegal settlement expansion in the West Bank and lack of... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C.  — Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement: “This is a dark, painful day for the people of New Jersey.  “Representing people in Congress demands the public's trust. When any elected official violates that trust, it is a betrayal of the oath we take to serve the people who’ve elected us. Without that trust, our ability to do our work and perform our duties for our constituents is compromised. “Senator Menendez was afforded his due process rights and... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C.  — Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20) led 86 of their colleagues in the Senate and House in a letter urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand investment in outreach and enrollment assistance to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients ahead of the upcoming November open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance. Senator Booker and Congressman Castro have been longtime... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced their Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in existing criminal child sexual abuse statues to help law enforcement better prosecute offenders and protect victims: “I am proud to join Senator Cornyn in introducing this critical piece of legislation that will close loopholes in current law to ensure that those who exploit and abuse children are held accountable,” said... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) wrote a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert M. Califf expressing concerns about the FDA’s proposed revisions to rules guiding antibiotic use in animal agriculture. If finalized, the agency’s changes would exacerbate antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by worsening the massive overuse of antibiotics in factory farms.  Antimicrobial resistance is a severe threat, making routine medical procedures more dangerous and... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. — Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced $99.5 million in funding for NJTRANSIT’s Meadowlands Outdoor Charging Facility. The grant is part of the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) FY24 Low and No Emission Grant Program and will be used for 67 zero-emission buses and the corresponding charging infrastructure. This project builds on a $37.7 million Federal Highway Administration award from September 2023 for the implementation of the initial phase of a Battery Electric... Read More