Cory Booker
What this job does: One of New Jersey's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Current office
- U.S. Senator from New Jersey (since October 31, 2013)
- Occupation
- U.S. Senator
- Lives in
- Newark
Background
- Earned a B.A. in political science (1991) and an M.A. in sociology (1992) at Stanford University, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned a law degree from Yale Law School (1997). source: en.wikipedia.org
- Served on the Newark Municipal Council, Central Ward, 1998 to 2002. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. source: whyy.org
- Won a 2013 special election after Sen. Frank Lautenberg died, was reelected in 2014, and won a full term in 2020. source: whyy.org
- In 1997 founded a nonprofit that gave free legal help to lower-income residents. source: whyy.org
- Ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2019 and ended that campaign in January 2020. source: en.wikipedia.org
In their own words
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- "Keep Your Pay Act": make the first $75,000 of household income tax-free for most filers and expand the child tax credit source: whyy.org
- Opposes the tariffs imposed by President Trump source: whyy.org
- Will not vote for more money for the war with Iran source: whyy.org
- Funding for the Gateway project and the Delaware River bridge source: whyy.org
- Community-based outpatient health clinics for military families source: whyy.org
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