Cory Booker, Senator for New Jersey

Booker is the junior senator from New Jersey and is a Democrat. He has served since Oct 31, 2013. Booker is next up for reelection in 2020.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Booker.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Booker is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Booker has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Human Rights Campaign: 100% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 100% League of Conservation Voters: 98% American Civil Liberties Union: 88% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B+ NIAC Action: B United States Chamber of Commerce: 43% The Club for Growth: 13% NumbersUSA: 7% Americans for Prosperity: 4% FreedomWorks: 0%

Committee Membership

Cory Booker sits on the following committees:

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism
- Member, Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Member, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
- Member, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
- Member, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Enacted Legislation

Booker was the primary sponsor of 4 bills that were enacted:

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Booker sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (24%) Government Operations and Politics (15%) Crime and Law Enforcement (15%) Taxation (14%) Education (9%) Transportation and Public Works (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (6%) Environmental Protection (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Booker’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Booker’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 1892: Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, the SUSTAIN Care Act of 2018; Family First Prevention Services Act.; Honoring Hometown ... Feb 9, 2018. Motion Agreed to 71/28. This bill became the vehicle for passage of funding for the federal government through March 23, 2018, to avert a government shutdown that would have occurred on February 9, 2018 had this bill not been enacted. The bill was introduced as the Honoring Hometown Heroes ...
Nay	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26.
Yea	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Nay	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Jul 30, 2015. Bill Passed 65/34. This vote turned H.R 22, originally the Hire More Heroes Act, into the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647), a major bipartisan transportation bill, and the Export-Import Bank Reform and ...
Nay	S. 1177: Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 Jul 16, 2015. Bill Passed 81/17. The Every Child Achieves Act is a bipartisan educational policy reform bill that would expand state responsibility over schools, provide grants to charter schools, and reduce the federal test-based accountability system of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The bill was referred to the ...
Yea	H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Dec 16, 2014. Bill Passed 76/16.
Nay	On the Nomination PN1777: Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dec 4, 2014. Nomination Confirmed 76/16.
Yea	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 18, 2014. Joint Resolution Passed 78/22.
Nay	H.R. 2642 (113th): Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 Feb 4, 2014. Conference Report Agreed to 68/32.

Missed Votes

From Oct 2013 to Sep 2018, Booker missed 47 of 1,469 roll call votes, which is 3.2%. This is worse than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2013 Oct-Dec	66	1	1.5%	65^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Apr-Jun	123	11	8.9%	85^th
2014 Jul-Sep	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	96	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Jan-Mar	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	85	2	2.4%	69^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	1	1.9%	58^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jan-Mar	38	2	5.3%	68^th
2016 Apr-Jun	79	3	3.8%	76^th
2016 Jul-Sep	34	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	1	1.9%	62^nd
2017 Jul-Sep	53	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	12	10.3%	96^th
2018 Jan-Mar	63	6	9.5%	91^st
2018 Apr-Jun	80	8	10.0%	93^rd
2018 Jul-Sep	67	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
available Booker's Senate office for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Cory Booker is pronounced:

KOR-ee // BUU-ker

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
B b	bat
EE ee	meet
ER er	her
K k	king
OR or	corn
UU uu	book

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Sen. Cory Booker

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