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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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Jun 5, 2026

The Anti-Weaponization Fund presents an immediate and dire threat to our constitutional order and the authority of Congress.

cbsnews.com
Jun 4, 2026

We will keep speaking up and standing with the American people as we continue the work to advance this War Powers Resolution.

duckworth.senate.gov
Jun 3, 2026

This [Iranian] regime is getting money to rebuild, purchase more drones, cause more havoc

reason.com
Jun 1, 2026

Yes, I have concerns. That guy has questions to answer – and that’s what campaigns are for.

theguardian.com
Jun 1, 2026

So much is riding on Democrats taking control. If we do not get the votes necessary to take care of the House and the Senate, we will continue to have an out-of-control president.

theguardian.com
May 29, 2026

We should be telling those loving moms and dads that they are right, right about the chemicals, right about the ultra-processed foods, right about the chronic disease, right that something in America is profoundly broken.

washingtonexaminer.com
May 29, 2026

MAHA parents are being betrayed by the current administration over the herbicide.

washingtonexaminer.com
May 28, 2026

This reporting makes clear that we need federal legislation to rein in the over-use and misuse of tear gas and chemical agents.

propublica.org
May 27, 2026

New Jersey is home to over 2,000 plant species, and our native plants are essential to the health of our ecosystems and the diversity of our wildlife.

hirono.senate.gov
May 27, 2026

I’ve been proud to work with my Senate Democratic colleagues to use every tool and power we have in the Senate to stop this war, and tonight, we secured the first real step towards ending it.

duckworth.senate.gov
May 27, 2026

Well, already the president’s balance sheet is letting more than $14 billion go through that during this conflict; he allowed them to sell oil in this deal alone.

huffpost.com
May 27, 2026

The NAIRR gives universities, students, and researchers—in New Jersey and across the country—the tools they need to pursue new breakthroughs.

young.senate.gov
May 27, 2026

The cost of youth sports has gotten out of control. Parents are getting squeezed, kids are being shut out, and big businesses are cashing in.

murphy.senate.gov
May 26, 2026

Immigrants at Delaney Hall are on a hunger strike because they are fighting for their human rights. The conditions there are deplorable. Enough is enough - not in New Jersey, not anywhere.

cbsnews.com
May 26, 2026

Easing of sanctions on Iran, allowing them to get billions of more, the same deal [from Obama that] he criticized, he’s already doing worse than.

huffpost.com
May 26, 2026

This does not deal with that. Before he became president the first time, they had no highly enriched uranium. They had sent it out. Now, they have it because of him.

huffpost.com
May 26, 2026

He’s got us in a situation that’s worse than it was before — a more extreme regime [with the] Strait of Hormuz now as a leveraging point for them.

huffpost.com
May 17, 2026

We also stand here with the understanding that the freedoms we inherited from our ancestors are not possessions that we hold, they are rights that we hold in trust.

wisconsinexaminer.com
May 13, 2026

in 1974, Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The ECOA was put in place to protect people from what was widespread discrimination in getting and using credit. Congress knew how vital credit is…

govinfo.gov
Mar 24, 2026

there is something awful going on here in the U.S. Senate, and people should focus on it right now. The Senate is not doing their job. And we see a President unilaterally going off to fight a war--to declare war without any authority from…

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Mar 18, 2026

I have listened carefully to my colleagues who have come down to oppose this War Powers Resolution that I am bringing up right now. I have listened with an open heart because many of them I have worked with on Middle East issues…

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Mar 5, 2026

to my colleagues in the Senate, to the Senate President, to all those assembled here, I am rising to give this speech, and I feel such privilege because I get to recognize someone whose work most Americans never see but whose contribution…

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Feb 11, 2026

I had a sleepless night last night as I put together in my mind where I think we are as a nation right now. We are a nation that, looking across our great land, showed unequivocally that we are in crisis. We are in a constitutional crisis…

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Feb 11, 2026

In this body, I see cowardice now. I see people afraid that the President will retaliate against them if they stand up and say something. Well, Thomas Jefferson said clearly: When the people are afraid of government, there is tyranny. When…

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