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Sen. Cory Booker

Senator for New Jersey

pronounced KOR-ee // BUU-ker

Booker is the senior senator from New Jersey and is a Democrat. He has served since Oct 31, 2013. Booker is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan 3, 2027. He is 55 years old.

Photo of Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2024 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 ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2021 to Mar 14, 2025. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ, 2013-2026] sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Booker was the primary sponsor of 12 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

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Does 12 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Booker sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (30%) Crime and Law Enforcement (20%) Agriculture and Food (13%) Education (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%) International Affairs (8%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Environmental Protection (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Booker recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Booker voted Nay
Conference Report Agreed to 83/16 on Feb 14, 2019.
This bill, in its final form, funded the parts of the federal government whose funding was to lapse on February 15, 2019. On December 22, …
Booker voted Nay
Motion Agreed to 71/28 on Feb 9, 2018.
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 …
Booker voted Nay
Booker voted Nay
Bill Passed 72/26 on Sep 28, 2016.
The Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5325) is an appropriations …
Booker voted Nay
Bill Passed 81/17 on Jul 16, 2015.
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 …
Booker voted Yea
Joint Resolution Passed 78/22 on Sep 18, 2014.

Missed Votes

From Oct 2013 to Mar 2025, Booker missed 408 of 4,016 roll call votes, which is 10.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, major life events, and running for higher office. Legislators running for president or vice president typically miss votes while on the campaign trail — that’s normal. See our analysis of presidential candidates’ missed votes.

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Primary Sources

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