Press Releases

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is traveling to Puerto Rico to meet with officials, business leaders, and residents and see firsthand the conditions facing the 3.4 million American citizens on the island as they continue to recover and rebuild nearly four months after Hurricane Maria made landfall. Booker is making his trip ahead of the January 19 deadline for Congress to agree to a FY18 budget agreement and settle a number of issues, including a third emergency disaster... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has been appointed to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, one of the most influential and important committees in the chamber. In addition to Booker, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) was also appointed to the committee, marking the first time two African-Americans will serve simultaneously on the panel. The pair are only the second and third African-Americans to ever serve on the Judiciary Committee in its 200-plus year history. The Judiciary... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Trump Administration announced its decision to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador. “This decision to end protections for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans – including thousands right here in New Jersey – is heartless and a grave mistake. TPS was created to offer temporary, humane protection to foreign... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced today that he has signed on to Senator Ed Markey’s (D-MA) resolution to undo the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2017 action to dismantle net neutrality rules. “The FCC’s vote to gut net neutrality protections was a massive blow to the fundamental ideals of a free and open internet for all,” Booker said. “Congress shouldn’t stand passively by while innovation is stifled and the... Read More

WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), David Perdue (R-GA), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced the HBCU Capital Financing Improvement Act (S.2268), a bill which will help improve the financial health of some of our country’s most critical higher education institutions. Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) introduced the companion bill in the U.S. House of Representatives last year. Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are original cosponsors of the Senate bill. Despite... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Trump Administration announced plans to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all federal waters, including parts of the Atlantic Ocean. “The Trump Administration has proven they are willing to put oil company profits ahead of the safety of our coastal communities,” said Sen. Booker. “We know full well... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the below statement following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rollback federal marijuana policy. Sessions’ outdated and misguided views on criminal justice policy were the driving force behind Booker’s decision to testify against Sessions at his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee last January. “Jeff Sessions’ determination to revive the failed War on Drugs knows no bounds.... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement after President Trump dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity: “Trump's Voter Fraud Commission was an offense, based on a lie, blatantly seeking to suppress votes. I introduced a bill to disband the commission. I am so glad it is no longer necessary. Now that this step backwards was stopped, let's restore the Voting Rights Act.” Booker has led the fight against the Trump... Read More

NEWARK, NJ – U.S. Senator Cory Booker issued the following statement after the U.S. Army identified the soldier tragically killed yesterday in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan as Mihail Golin of Fort Lee, New Jersey. “Sergeant First Class Mihail Golin served our nation with courage and distinction, and his death is a loss that will be felt across New Jersey. Let us honor Sergeant Golin's extraordinary courage by reflecting on his commitment to the nation he loved, and by recognizing... Read More

Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement: "It is unconscionable that Congress is ending the year without doing anything to protect the nearly 800,000 Dreamers who are Americans in every way except for lacking documentation when they were brought to the US as kids. It's outrageous that we're leaving without doing anything more than the barest minimum to help 9 million kids facing the loss of coverage because the Children's Health Insurance Program has expired.... Read More

WASHINGTON —  U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senator Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, welcomed the Treasury Department’s announcement of new sanctions designations under the Global Magnitsky Act, including sanctions on Dan Gertler, a close associate of President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila. Gertler’s long and documented history of systematically undervaluing DRC’s mineral wealth has resulted... Read More

  WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Cory Booker, the top-ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate subcommittee responsible for overseeing passenger rail safety in the United States, and Bob Menendez, the top-ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate mass transit subcommittee, joined a group of 14 Senators in calling on Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao to hold railroads accountable for failing to implement sufficient safety measures. The Senators demanded a status report on railroads’... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  With reproductive rights increasingly under assault by the Trump Administration, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) have re-introduced a bill to protect women’s access to birth control. No one should be able to interfere with a woman’s health care decisions, but sadly, there have been reports of pharmacies in at least 25 states that have refused to fill a prescription for birth control.  The Access to Birth Control (ABC) Act... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the passage of the GOP’s tax plan tonight: “When the story of this tax plan is written, congressional Republicans will be remembered for never wavering in their determination to give a massive tax cut to corporations, to the wealthiest among us, and to the well-connected at the expense of ordinary Americans, who were nothing but an afterthought. New Jersey families and communities will be among... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) today became the first U.S senator to cosponsor Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) landmark bill to end the federal prohibition on marijuana. He announced his support in a Facebook live tonight with Booker. The Marijuana Justice Act would remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances, making it legal at the federal level. “Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration are still trying to fight a 1980s drug war that is socially... Read More

Washington, DC – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, which oversees passenger rail in the United States, issued the following statement: “My heart is with the families and loved ones of those killed or injured in this terrible disaster, and my gratitude goes to the first responders who so quickly and professionally responded to help people and save... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the vote earlier today to end net neutrality protections: “Today’s vote to completely gut net neutrality protections is a devastating blow not just to internet access, but to the fundamental ideals of a free and open internet for all. Creating fast lanes and slow lanes on the internet will stifle innovation and undermine the democratizing power of the internet. “Net neutrality... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC –U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) today sent letters to both Thomas Farr, nominee to be a District Court Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and to Attorney General Jeff Sessions seeking an explanation for apparent discrepancies between Farr’s written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee and his apparent awareness of a major voter suppression effort during then-Senator Jesse Helms’ re-election campaign in 1990 that was the subject of a Department... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reintroduced a bill to hold polluters responsible for the cleanup of contaminated Superfund sites in New Jersey and across the country. The Superfund Polluter Pays Restoration Act of 2017 reinstates the excise tax on polluting industries to pay for the cleanup of Superfund sites, relieving taxpayers of the expense. It... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today urged Senate leaders to boost Medicaid resources for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands while they negotiate a disaster relief package. In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Senators highlighted the urgent need to bolster Medicaid programs in U.S. territories devastated by recent hurricanes. “Among the many... Read More