Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is pressing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz to immediately reinstate a key transparency deadline requiring Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to report detailed information about their ownership, management, and related-party financial arrangements. CMS’s decision to suspend that deadline has significantly weakened visibility into who controls nursing homes and how public dollars are used. U.S. Senators... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Roger Marshall (R-KS), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz urging CMS to provide clearer guidance defining allowable and non-allowable foods under the Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) in Medicare Advantage (MA). Grocery cards in these health care plans are supposed to help patients... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the rapid escalation at Delaney Hall. On Wednesday, Booker conducted an oversight visit to the detention facility. Statement from Senator Booker: “I am deeply disturbed and outraged by the rapid escalation overnight at Delaney Hall, especially with video emerging that appears to show an ICE agent striking a protester with a baton into what seemed to be a... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. — Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, conducted a congressional oversight visit to Delaney Hall, a privately-owned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency detention facility run by GEO Group. During his oversight visit, Booker spoke with dozens of individuals detained at the facility, who described inadequate access to medical care, substandard food, no ability to visit or communicate with their families, and abysmal... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in urging the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to assess the full cost of the war with Iran and to correct what the lawmakers say are incomplete and inaccurate estimates from the Trump administration. “The American people deserve to know the true costs of this conflict, and they deserve transparency and honesty when their... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim (D-NJ), together with U.S. Representatives Herb Conaway Jr. (D-NJ-3) and Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ-2), introduced the Mullica River Watershed Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2026. This bipartisan legislation would direct the National Park Service to study the Mullica River for potential inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System—an important step toward strengthening the long-term conservation of one of New Jersey’s most... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) are urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to swiftly approve New Jersey’s disaster designation request following catastrophic crop losses caused by an unprecedented April freeze. Early summer-like temperatures, followed by a sudden drop into freezing cold, killed the blooming buds on fruit trees, vines, and bushes across the state. Growers are now reporting extensive or near-total losses across key crops,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate advanced a War Powers Resolution to force an end to President Trump’s war with Iran. The resolution was led by U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Andy Kim (D-NJ), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR). “I’ve been proud to work with my Senate Democratic colleagues to use every... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) Ideas Conference, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, unveiled the Food is Medicine: HEAL America Agenda, a sweeping proposal confronting the connection between Americans’ affordability, health and food crisis, which is making us sicker and poorer. Booker warned that the United States is experiencing the worst chronic disease epidemic in its history, driven... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and their colleagues applauded the Senate’s passage of their bipartisan resolution to empower young people and their families to get outdoors and promote healthy outdoor recreation by designating May 16, 2026 National Kids to Parks Day. Started in 2011 with the National Park Trust, the fifteenth annual Kids to Parks Day kicks off a summer-long series of events at local, state and national parks. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement following the conclusion of President Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing: “The United States’ relationship with China is among the most... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC. – On Endangered Species Day, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), along with U.S. Representative Adelita S. Grijalva (D-AZ-7), introduced the Extinction Prevention Act, legislation that would provide much-needed funding for some of the country’s most imperiled yet vastly underfunded wildlife species. “In New Jersey and across our nation we are seeing more and more endangered species head toward extinction simply because we have not consistently invested... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC. – On Endangered Species Day, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), along with U.S. Representative Adelita S. Grijalva (D-AZ-7), introduced the Extinction Prevention Act, legislation that would provide much-needed funding for some of the country’s most imperiled yet vastly underfunded wildlife species. “In New Jersey and across our nation we are seeing more and more endangered species head toward extinction simply because we have not consistently invested... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), and U.S. Representative Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17) introduced the Let Kids Play Act, a bicameral bill aimed at stopping Wall Street from pricing kids out of youth sports by banning private equity firms from the space, curbing predatory practices that drive up costs, and returning money to families who have been overcharged. The legislation is co-sponsored in the House by U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and John Kennedy (R-LA), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced theViolent Incident Clearance and Technological Investigative Methods (VICTIM) Act to establish a grant program at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to solve more crimes and improve clearance rates for homicides and firearm-related violent crimes. “Solving violent crime is the most powerful deterrent we have, and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), John Boozman (R-AR), and U.S. Representatives Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ-2) and Ami Bera (D-CA-6) announced the launch of the Congressional International Exchanges Caucus. The members are launching this caucus to bolster engagement and support for international exchange programs, particularly those administered by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). “I am thrilled to join my colleagues in launching the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), co-chair of the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), along with U.S. Representatives Nanette Barragán (D-CA-44) and Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10), led 34 members from both chambers in opposition to EPA Administrator Zeldin’s Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule. The Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention rule would weaken 2024 protections designed to keep workers, emergency responders, and communities... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is leading a renewed effort to confront the gun violence epidemic plaguing communities across the United States. In a push to address this public health crisis—now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States—Booker, along with Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Alex Padilla (D-CA), reintroduced... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, slammed the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Louisiana v. Callais case, attacking the Voting Rights Act. In recent interviews, Booker has called out the decision stating, “The Court today ensures that it will be remembered as one of the most destructive and deeply irresponsible Courts in the history of our nation,”and “This isn’t about left or right. It’s not about... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), both members of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, issued the following statement in response to the House-passed Farm Bill’s inclusion of language that would preempt California’s Proposition 12 and other state laws: "We are extremely disappointed that today's House-passed Farm Bill includes language to preempt California's Prop 12 and other state laws. These laws set bare-minimum sanitation and... Read More