Press Releases

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

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement:   “Although we know that the vote on the Senate Republicans’ craven plan has been delayed, we cannot delude ourselves into thinking this fight is over. We know that Senate Republican leadership will spend the next couple of weeks wrangling votes — so we must spend that time rallying more resistance against this cruel repeal effort that would result in over 20 million Americans losing... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement: “The independent CBO just shattered any illusion that the Senate Republican health repeal bill is any less cruel and craven than the version passed by the House. “Under the Senate Republican plan, by next year, 15 million fewer Americans will have health coverage, and by 2026, 22 million fewer Americans will be covered -- not to mention the millions more who would be left with worse coverage and... Read More

Washington, DC – With news reports indicating the White House is on the verge of issuing an executive order devoid of policies that would meaningfully reduce prescription drug prices, breaking yet another key promise to Americans, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) joined Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and other Senate and House Democrats to urge President Donald Trump to act on solutions that truly reduce the rising cost of prescription drugs. In a letter sent today, the group pressed Trump to support the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the Senate Republicans’ health care bill released earlier today:  "It is painfully clear that this bill -- developed in secret, with no public input, accountability, or transparency -- was never intended to give better health coverage to more people, it was deliberately crafted to protect and increase the wealth of the few. Under this version of Trumpcare, just like the last, millions of... Read More

NEW BRUNSWICK – As Senate Republicans continue to craft health repeal legislation with a stunning lack of transparency, today U.S. Sen. Cory Booker was joined by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) along with healthcare professionals and advocates at the Children’s Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick to highlight the harmful effects that the secret Senate Republican ACA repeal bill poses to New Jerseyans. Not one public hearing or meeting has been scheduled for the legislation.... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is introducing legislation to force the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action to strengthen federal lead limits for baby food and fruit juice as the Environmental Defense Fund releases a new report finding that a decade’s worth of FDA data showed detectable levels of lead present in 20 percent of baby food samples. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there is no safe level of lead exposure for children. Lead exposure... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Rand Paul (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Al Franken (D-MN), and Mike Lee (R-UT) along with Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Don Young (R-AK) today reintroduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill that would allow patients to access medical marijuana in states where it is legal without fear of federal prosecution.  Today’s bill comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions attempts to crack down on... Read More