Cory Booker
American politician
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| May 2025 | Became the lone Democrat to vote to confirm Charles Kushner as United States Ambassador to France. |
| April 3 2025 | Two days after delivering a marathon speech on the Senate floor, Booker voted against Bernie Sanders-backed legislation that would have cancelled $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel during its war on Gaza. |
| March 31 2025 | Delivered a marathon speech lasting 25 hours and five minutes, breaking the record for the longest speech in US Senate history, surpassing Strom Thurmond's 1957 filibuster. |
| March 31 2025 | Began delivering the longest speech in United States Senate history, lasting 25 hours and 5 minutes, protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump. |
| 2024 | Cory Booker appeared in the Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment. |
| August 20 2024 | Cory Booker became New Jersey's senior senator following Bob Menendez's resignation. |
| 2022 | Cory Booker voted for the Respect for Marriage Act in 2022, demonstrating his support for LGBTQ+ rights. |
| November 2022 | Booker wrote a letter of support for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes before her sentencing hearing, expressing hope for her future contributions to society. |
| February 2022 | Booker's relationship with actress Rosario Dawson ended. |
| 2021 | In 2021, Cory Booker and Bob Menendez faced criticism from The American Prospect for recommending Christine O'Hearne for a federal judgeship despite her controversial past in defending employers against discrimination. |
| January 6 2021 | While participating in the certification of the United States Electoral College vote count, Booker's chamber was evacuated due to the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters. |
| 2020 | Re-elected to the U.S. Senate. |
| 2020 | Booker discovered that he is cousins with entertainer RuPaul while both were featured on the TV show Finding Your Roots. |
| November 3 2020 | Cory Booker defeated Republican nominee Rik Mehta in the general election for the U.S. Senate, receiving 57% of the votes compared to Mehta's 41%. |
| March 2020 | Booker endorsed former vice president Joe Biden for president. |
| January 13 2020 | Cory Booker suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. presidential election. |
| 2019 | Booker criticized the Trump administration for escalating tensions with Iran and argued that using a 2001 law to authorize military force would be illegal. |
| 2019 | Cory Booker introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act along with 34 other senators, proposing legislation to create 770,000 new child care jobs and ensure affordable child care for families under 75% of state median income, while supporting universal preschool access for 3 and 4-year-olds. |
| 2019 | Booker reintroduced the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act with Warren and Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Karen Bass, emphasizing the need to address unique challenges faced by women in the prison system. |
| August 8 2019 | Booker unveiled the Climate Stewardship Act of 2019, a comprehensive bill aimed at supporting climate stewardship practices, planting trees, restoring wetlands, and promoting renewable energy in agriculture. |
| July 2019 | Booker signed a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Labor advocating for a full OSHA investigation into workplace violence complaints at McDonald's, arguing for better employee protection and workplace safety. |
| July 2019 | Booker signed a letter opposing the Trump administration's plan to end deportation protections for spouses, parents, and children of active-duty service members. |
| July 31 2019 | At the Detroit Democratic debate, Booker advocated for advanced climate change leadership, arguing that the US must lead on the issue. |
| July 2 2019 | Booker unveiled a comprehensive immigration plan focusing on improving detention facility standards, ending for-profit detention, expanding refugee protections, and reversing Trump administration immigration policies. |
| June 2019 | Booker and eleven other senators introduced The Home Ownership Dreamers Act to prevent denying mortgage loans based on immigration status. |
| June 2019 | Cory Booker co-sponsored the bipartisan Save our Seas 2.0 Act alongside seven other senators, aiming to address plastic pollution in oceans by promoting innovation and strategies to reduce and repurpose plastic waste globally. |
| June 2019 | Booker was one of fifteen senators to introduce the Affordable Medications Act, which sought to increase pharmaceutical pricing transparency and allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. |
| June 2019 | Booker was one of forty-four senators to introduce the International Climate Accountability Act, which would prevent attempts to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. |
| June 2019 | Booker was one of 28 senators who signed a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross warning against adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, arguing it would jeopardize the accuracy and fairness of the decennial census. |
| June 2019 | Cory Booker, along with eighteen other Democratic senators, sent a letter to USDA Inspector General Phyllis K. Fong requesting an investigation into instances of retaliation and political decision-making at the USDA, criticizing the potential suppression of scientific data by the administration. |
| June 2019 | Booker was one of eighteen senators to sign a letter to Secretary of State Pompeo questioning the State Department's lack of Pride Month commemoration and challenging the absence of LGBTI rights advocacy. |
| June 2019 | Booker co-sponsored the Territories Health Equity Act of 2019, aimed at removing Medicaid funding caps for U.S. territories and increasing federal matching rates. |
| June 2019 | Booker introduced the Remove Marijuana from Deportable Offenses Act to prevent marijuana possession from being grounds for deportation. |
| June 2019 | Booker was one of six Democrats led by Amy Klobuchar who signed letters to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice, calling for investigations into potential anticompetitive activities in digital markets. |
| June 2019 | Along with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Booker sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Justice requesting an investigation into Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of 21 regional sports networks, citing concerns about the company's partisan political messaging. |
| June 19 2019 | Cory Booker publicly advocated for withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, stating 'We need to bring our American troops home. We cannot have forever wars in this nation'. |
| May 2019 | During a TV interview, Booker publicly disagreed with Elizabeth Warren's stance on breaking up big tech companies, arguing against using presidential power to unilaterally dismantle corporations without proper legal process. |
| May 2019 | Cory Booker and Representative Ayanna Pressley introduced the Healthy MOMMIES Act to expand Medicaid coverage for new mothers, extending postpartum care from 60 days to a full year and directing research on doula care coverage. |
| May 12 2019 | Booker made a critical statement about China's trade practices, accusing the country of unfairly stealing intellectual property, forcing technology transfers, and using subsidies to undercut international markets. |
| April 2019 | Cory Booker signed onto the Be HEARD Act, a legislative effort to abolish the tipped minimum wage, end mandatory arbitration and pre-employment nondisclosure agreements, and provide workers more time to report workplace harassment. |
| April 2019 | Cory Booker was one of 34 senators who signed a letter to President Trump criticizing his foreign aid policy towards Central America, arguing that cutting assistance would damage national security and increase migration. |
| April 2019 | Cory Booker signed a bipartisan letter with forty other senators advocating for continued funding of HUD's Section 4 Capacity Building program, criticizing President Trump's proposed budget that would eliminate the program which supports community development organizations. |
| April 2019 | Cory Booker, along with eleven other Democratic senators, signed a letter led by Mazie Hirono challenging Attorney General William Barr's interpretation of the Mueller Report. The letter demanded investigations into Barr's summary and news conference, questioning whether his conclusions about presidential conduct and obstruction of justice were misleading. |
| April 13 2019 | Booker held a campaign kickoff rally in Newark. |
| April 10 2019 | Cory Booker introduced the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019 with Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Yvette Clarke, proposing legislation to grant additional powers to the FTC and require companies to study potential technological biases related to race, gender, and other factors. |
| March 2019 | Actress Rosario Dawson confirmed her romantic relationship with Cory Booker. |
| March 2019 | Booker sponsored the Climate Security Act of 2019, proposing the creation of a new group within the State Department to integrate climate science into national security operations. |
| March 2019 | Booker voted to block President Trump's national emergency declaration that would have provided $3.6 billion for border barrier construction. |
| March 2019 | Cory Booker, along with Elizabeth Warren and Ted Deutch, signed a congressional letter to Prisoner Transportation Services of America, highlighting concerns about prisoner safety and criticizing potential profit-driven risks to inmates' health. |
| March 2019 | Cory Booker, along with 38 other senators, signed a letter to the Appropriations Committee advocating for back pay for contractor workers affected by the government shutdown, emphasizing that these workers should not suffer consequences from a shutdown they did not cause. |
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