Sen. Cory Booker

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 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 3, 2019 to Nov 21, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Cory Booker sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Africa and Global Health Policy subcommittee Chair

  Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism subcommittee Chair

  Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, the Constitution, Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
  Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade, Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Enacted Legislation

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

• S. 4732 (117th): Enslaved Voyages Memorial Act
• S. 3053 (117th): PRECIP Act
• S. 1935 (117th): VR&E NEED Act of 2021
• S. 1689 (116th): A bill to permit States to transfer certain funds from the clean water revolving fund of a State to the drinking water revolving fund of the State …
• S. 1100 (116th): A bill to institute a program for the disclosure of taxpayer information for third-party income verification through the Internet.
• S. 387 (116th): Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019
• S. 3016 (115th): Action for Dental Health Act of 2018

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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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Booker sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (29%) Crime and Law Enforcement (19%) Agriculture and Food (14%) Education (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%) International Affairs (7%) Armed Forces and National Security (7%) Environmental Protection (6%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Booker recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 5396: A bill to enable incarcerated persons to petition a Federal court for a …
• S. 5395: A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to establish an Office …
• S. 5387: A bill to strengthen student achievement and graduation rates and prepare children and …
• S. 5378: A bill to establish a grant program to facilitate nationwide accessibility and coordination …
• S. 5293: Presidential Security Resources Reimbursement Act of 2024
• S. 5261: Fight Book Bans Act
• S. 5176: Industrial Agriculture Conversion Act of 2024

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

As Senate Democratic Policy & Communications Committee Vice Chair, Booker may be focused on his responsibilities other than introducing legislation, such as setting the chamber’s agenda, uniting his party, and brokering deals.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Oct 2013 to Nov 2024, Booker missed 395 of 3,845 roll call votes, which is 10.3%. This is much worse than the median of 3.0% 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 absenses, 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

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