Cory Booker
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Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the junior United States senator from New Jersey, a position he has held since 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker previously served as the mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, where he focused on urban development and public safety initiatives. He is known for his advocacy on issues such as criminal justice reform, affordable housing, and healthcare access. Throughout his career, Booker has emphasized the importance of community engagement and bipartisanship in addressing the challenges facing New Jersey and the nation.
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October 13, 2026
This is the kind of ‘Yahoo’ foreign policy that has mired us in Middle East war after Middle East war.
— Cory Booker
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by number of sources- At its core, it’s a bill that undermines the rights of young people who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless hours of work and more, into their craft.18 sources2026washingtonstatestandard.com
- We have seen hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars pouring into our political system, corrupting all three branches of government.5 sources2026washingtonstatestandard.com
- They sided with the big multinational corporations against the people.4 sources2026washingtonstatestandard.com
- The Mamas First Act meets a crisis that is costing mothers their lives—especially Black and Indigenous women who walk into delivery rooms carrying risks no family should bear.3 sources2026padilla.senate.gov
- The court sided with the wealthy, powerful multinational corporations, reversing years and years of precedent.2 sources2026mainemorningstar.com
- The totality of the evidence is staggering against Blanche’s nomination.2 sources2026ncnewsline.com
Costs across the board have gone up, as I said, between $4,000 and $5,000 for the average family, but for other families, they see their healthcare costs go up and skyrocket.
This is the kind of yahoo cowboy foreign policy that has mired us in Middle Eastern war after Middle Eastern war. With false bravado, we are saying we’re just going to go in there and kick ass.
For more than 50 years, the Helms Amendment has restricted the use of U.S. foreign assistance for abortion care, with real consequences for women around the world.
This bill actually does is it takes away rights for them to legally challenge anything that the cartel of the NCAA does.
That is a lie. The reality is, they don't need Congress' beneficent actions to give them NIL rights, they've earned them in the courts.
At its core, it’s a bill that undermines the rights of young people who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless hours of work and more, into their craft.
That's what frustrates me — we have a bill that's going to protect the wealth and the gravy train for a lot of folks but puts burdens on college athletes.
Governor Sherrill is absolutely right the conduct described in the investigative report is totally unacceptable.
Sickle cell disease has been historically overlooked and underfunded, and people living with it, who are disproportionately Black Americans, face systemic barriers to the care they need to live full, healthy lives.
We don’t have an FBI director. We have a lackey here who is using government, and frankly, he’s not even a good lackey. He’s an incompetent lackey.
Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, watching a version of that spectacle, called it 'counterfeit masculinity,' toughness performed to paper over the absence of the real thing, and the phrase has stuck with me because it is exactly…
Without good explanation or justification, Trump’s government is again politicizing disaster relief and denying New Jersey the support needed.
Sysco’s action represents an effort to vertically integrate the food distribution space and eliminate a competitor price check that helps maintain lower-cost options.
The Senate does have things that our founders never imagined, like the fact that North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana have 10 senators and they have less population than Los Angeles County, and that’s really problematic,
We're going to handle the problems in New Jersey, but I hate how it's being weaponized by some people to advance schemes that actually would hurt Americans.
We have a governor that's saying this is unacceptable. We're gonna make sure that we get to the bottom of it. People need to be held accountable.
Nothing in the SAVE Act would have prevented a clerical error like we've seen in Texas and Oregon and New Jersey.
He has demonstrated himself to put undue pressure. This is why he was impeached. This is why he was criminally indicted.





