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Cory A. Booker

Cory A. Booker

Democratic · NJ U.S. SenatorCandidate 2026

Service history

14 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2013

  • Senator NJ 2013–present

Background

  • background Born April 27, 1969 in Washington, D.C.; raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey
  • background A lawyer educated at Stanford University, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School
  • role Served on the Newark Municipal Council (1998-2002) and as the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013
  • achievement A Democrat and the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey, in office since a 2013 special election
  • role Became New Jersey's senior senator in August 2024 and ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination
  • achievement In March-April 2025 delivered the longest speech in U.S. Senate history, 25 hours and 5 minutes

Campaign finance

2018 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. Senate NJ · 2026 General Election

  • $6,012,679 raised
  • $3,257,639 spent
  • $4,135,489 cash on hand
$6.01M
$3.96M
$3.77M
Itemized (≥ $200)$2.11M
Unitemized (< $200)$1.66M
Party committees$2.85K
Other committees (PACs)$188.35K
Transfers from other committees$2.02M
Offsets to expenditures$10.30K
Other receipts$14.97K
$3.26M
Operating expenditures$3.01M
Contribution refunds$95.38K
Other disbursements$148.50K
Cash on hand$4.14M
Debts owed by committee$167.39K

Through December 31, 2018 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Dec 31, 2018)

Finance updated: Jul 23, 2026

Over time

Data from FEC per-cycle campaign finance

Money raised, spent, and cash on hand across every election cycle on record — toggle a series in the legend.

Cory A. Booker campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle RaisedSpentCash on hand
2014$18,368,139$17,521,163$846,977
2016$2,315,709$1,782,239$1,380,448
2018$6,012,679$3,257,639$4,135,489
2020$8,290,751$6,539,134$5,887,106
2022$6,715,393$4,691,894$7,910,606
2024$7,919,520$4,637,640$11,192,486
2026$18,869,341$7,000,887$23,060,940

Track record

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

  • 95.5%
    Roll-call participation →

    voted in 890 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

    Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

  • 115
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 705 cosponsored

    A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

  • 0
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 115 bills sponsored

    Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

  • 100%
    Party-unity voting →

    votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 741 party-line votes

    Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

  • 0%
    Cross-party voting →

    votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

    The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

  • 0
    Documented positions →

    no positions documented yet

    Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

  • 14
    Committee assignments →

    committees and subcommittees

    Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

  • 1
    Documented relationships →

    neutral overlap signals (e.g., committee oversight of a traded sector)

    A documented relationship is a factual overlap in the public record — NOT evidence of wrongdoing.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Cory A. Booker. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Voting record

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

95.5%
of Senate roll calls voted Senate median 100.0% · −4.5 pts below median

Full voting record (890 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 890 of 890 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

Committee assignments (14)

Industry PAC support

Data from FEC — PAC (political action committee) contributions, 2026/2024/2022 cycles

Total disclosed PAC money: $570,790. Industry is approximated from a curated map; individual (non-PAC) donations are listed separately above.

Top PAC contributors (10)
  • AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $13,000
  • NORPAC $10,000
  • TZEDEK PAC $10,000
  • LOBO PAC $10,000
  • PERIMETER PAC $10,000
  • PEOPLE'S VOICE PAC $10,000
  • MOTOR CITY PAC $10,000
  • M-PAC $10,000
  • I GOT YOUR BACK PAC $10,000
  • HAWAII PAC $10,000

Top contributors (FEC)

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Top contributors — 2024 cycle

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor's reported employer (FEC Schedule A).

  • NULL $92,425
  • PRIME HEALTHCARE $19,800
  • APOLLO $15,800
  • LOWENSTEIN SANDLER LLP $15,700
  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY $14,100
  • CAPITAL REALTY $13,200
  • NATURA $13,200
  • LEIDER ENTERPRISES INC $13,200
  • BIG STILL LIQUORS $13,200
  • PENTA MEDICAL RECYCLING $11,600

Outside spending on this race

Data from FEC, Schedule E independent expenditures

Independent expenditures are money outside groups (PACs / super-PACs) spend to support or oppose a candidate without coordinating with their campaign. What's this? →

  • 2026 cycle $135 supporting · $0 opposing · 2 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Issue positions (13)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Booker, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

  • Committee oversight & campaign money — health coverage: medium

    Sits on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Africa and Global Health Policy, which oversees the health sector, and received 1 PAC contribution from health-sector political action committees totaling $10,000 (recent cycles).

    PAC industry is approximated from a curated keyword map, and only members with an FEC candidate id on file are covered — real totals may be higher.

    FEC PAC contributions

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Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

The members Booker most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

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Connections network

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Booker connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

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Sponsored / cosponsored bills (200)

Data from Congress.gov

200
Page 1 of 8 · 200 bills
  • S 5365Community Mental Wellness Worker Training ActsponsoredAug 6, 2026
  • SRES 843A resolution expressing support for the designation of the first week of August 2026, as "National Community Health Center Week", encouraging all people of the United States to participate by visiting their local community health center, and celebrating the important partnership between community health centers and the communities they serve.cosponsoredAug 6, 2026
  • S 5376A bill to establish minimum hiring, training, and suitability standards for Federal law enforcement officers, to prohibit accelerated or abbreviated basic training and provisional appointments, to provide for enforcement and oversight, and for other purposes.sponsoredAug 6, 2026
  • S 5288Protecting Pentagon Press Access ActcosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5324Fairness to Freedom Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5331Protect American Values Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5284Green New Deal for Public Housing ActcosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5318Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5325Delaney Hall Closure ActsponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5303Supporting Our Farm and Food System Workforce ActcosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • SRES 837A resolution designating the week of August 22 through August 30, 2026, as "National Park Week".cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5304Fairness for Farm Workers ActcosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5283Momnibus ActsponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5357A bill to impose requirements for certain Federal positions to promote transparency, and for other purposes.cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5301Voice for Farm Workers ActcosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5261FIRE Cancer Act of 2026sponsoredAug 4, 2026
  • SRES 830A resolution recognizing the 80th anniversary of the Fulbright Program.cosponsoredAug 3, 2026
  • S 5242Prescription Information Modernization Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 3, 2026
  • S 5231A bill to remove limitations under Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, and the Department of Veterans Affairs on benefits for persons in custody pending disposition of charges.cosponsoredAug 3, 2026
  • S 5182Tracking Plastic Act of 2026cosponsoredJul 29, 2026
  • S 5189A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, to codify and clarify gender neutral standards for members of certain Armed Forces, and for other purposes.cosponsoredJul 29, 2026
  • SRES 823A resolution designating the week of August 2 through August 8, 2026, as "National Farmers Market Week".cosponsoredJul 29, 2026
  • S 5186ASSET ActcosponsoredJul 29, 2026
  • S 5185Audit the Pentagon ActcosponsoredJul 29, 2026
  • S 5201A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.cosponsoredJul 29, 2026
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