Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The largest pharmaceutical companies in the country still haven’t announced any plans to pass along any of their huge windfall from the Trump tax cuts along to consumers in the form of lower drug prices, according to an updated report issued today by the office of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). In April, after reviewing transcripts of the fourth quarter earnings calls and other public forecasting statements of the 10 largest US-based pharmaceutical companies -- Pfizer,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), along with more than a dozen of their Senate colleagues, today questioned the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on the agency’s recent decision to halt regulatory action on predatory bank overdraft fees. In a letter sent to Leandra English, Acting Director of the CFPB, and Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Senators highlighted the CFPB’s... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), today introduced a bill targeting family detention and the harsh and inhumane conditions of immigration detention centers that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to house thousands of immigrants. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement: “Incarcerating families and children fleeing violence and oppression is an unacceptable response to the family separation crisis created by President Trump and his administration. The lack of any plan to reunite children with their parents and undo the damage that has been done by President Trump’s family separation policy is profoundly concerning to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) took to the Senate floor this afternoon to blast the Trump Administration’s policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents. “Yes, we need to uphold our just laws. But separating and imprisoning children and families is not how we do that. We need to protect our borders, but we need also to reflect our values, to protect our values, to affirm the character of this country. We need to protect and secure the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement: “The brave men and women serving in uniform here in the United States and abroad deserve our steadfast commitment to their readiness and success. The FY 2019 NDAA not only authorizes the resources our military needs to protect our national security, it provides the tools our troops need to keep themselves safe in the field. Furthermore, this legislation includes a much-deserved pay raise for our men and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan bill authored by Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Doug Jones (D-AL) that would modify an existing grant program to help low- and moderate-income households install or upgrade individually-owned decentralized wastewater systems has advanced through the Senate Agriculture Committee today as part of the 2018 Farm Bill. Booker, Capito, and Jones introduced the legislation in April as part of a package of bills aimed at addressing the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement: “I will always remain hopeful that a breakthrough can occur with North Korea that will end their nuclear program, stop the human rights abuses happening there, and lead to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. I truly doubt that the outcome of this meeting puts us on a course to get there. “President Trump and his team’s lack of... Read More

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) today published an episode of his “Lift Every Voice” podcast featuring an inspirational message for the Class of 2018 about how power is far more than the lines on your resume or the title on your business card. “I want you all…to think about your power in a different way,” Booker tells grads. “And as you strive to put more lines on your resume to realize that that resume will never ever reflect... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Bill Nelson (D-FL), along with Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have introduced a bill to protect the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale. Booker is a member of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, Carper is the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Nelson is the top Democrat on the Senate’s Commerce Committee, which oversees... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), and Cory Booker, who also sits on SFRC, today joined Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 29 other Senate Democrats in announcing introduction of legislation to keep immigrant families together and prevent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from separating children from their parents at the border.  Sen. Menendez’s senior staff were denied entry into an... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) called on the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to address the growing backlog of disability hearings that is preventing millions of Americans from accessing potentially lifesaving benefits. In a letter to the Acting SSA Commissioner Nancy Berryhill, Booker called for a thorough assessment of the entire disability benefits adjudication process and inquired about factors leading to the backlog and any efforts to address... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the Action for Dental Health Act of 2018, a bill that would reauthorize initiatives that increase access to oral health treatment and prevention services, particularly for underserved communities. “Oral health is an important part of one’s overall health and well-being, but many people lack access to these essential services -- especially those... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered floor remarks this morning outlining his opposition to the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to serve as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. At a time when the Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Trump Administration is rolling back civil rights protections for students, Booker laid out why Kenneth Marcus is the wrong choice to head the Office for Civil Rights, and why the... Read More

Washington, D.C. – According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly half of employed college graduates across the country are in jobs that require less than a four-year college education. For many young people seeking a job, an Associate’s degree is the most affordable and accessible vehicle to higher paying employment opportunities. Each year, thousands of community college students who haven’t yet received a degree transfer to four-year institutions. If these students... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, returned this week from a five-day visit to Turkey, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, where he discussed regional security and stability with U.S diplomats and military leaders, high-ranking government officials, and NGOs. In Turkey, Booker met with Karen Decker, Director of START Forward and Jennifer Davis, the U.S. Consul General in Istanbul, to discuss the U.S. humanitarian response... Read More

TOTOWA, NJ – U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez (both D-NJ) and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-09) were joined today by Toys “R” Us workers and advocates in standing up for employees at the iconic New Jersey-based retailer after it was forced into bankruptcy following a leveraged buyout that saddled it with exorbitant debt. In a leveraged buyout, a company is acquired by a specialized investment firm using a relatively small portion of equity and a relatively large... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)  today became the fifth U.S. senator to cosponsor Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) landmark bill to end the federal prohibition on marijuana. The Marijuana Justice Act would remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances, making it legal at the federal level. Merkley has been a leader within in the Senate on several marijuana-related issues, spearheading bipartisan efforts to enable banks to serve legal cannabis... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today lauded EPW passage of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA), bipartisan legislation that includes provisions Booker fought for to expedite critical flood mitigation projects, strengthen our aging water infrastructure, and help boost the water utility workforce. The bill now heads to the full Senate. "Investing in our water infrastructure is... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan resolution written by U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) today passed the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote. The resolution, introduced in January, urges the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take concrete steps to ensure the peaceful transfer of power by holding free and fair elections before the end of the year. DRC President Joseph Kabila has refused to abide by an agreement brokered in 2016 to hold... Read More