Cory A. Booker

Democrat · NJ · U.S. Senate

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New Jersey — U.S. Senate

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Bio

Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.

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Record of service

In office: 12.9 years
First took office: 2013 (3 terms)
Seniority: 60 of 100 by time served
Age: 57
Senate class: 2 · senior senator

Leadership

Senate Democratic Policy & Communications Committee Vice Chair · 2023–2025
Senate Democratic Strategic Communications Committee Chair · 2025–present

District offices

Newark, NJ · 973-639-8700
Camden, NJ · 856-338-8922

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2018

$808k

2019

$808k

2020

$765k

2021

$970k

2022

$698k

2023

$860k

2024

$1.1M

2025

$2.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.6M – $3.7M
Liabilities: $15k – $50k
Net worth: $1.5M – $3.7M
Since 2018: +$1.8M

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.46

Healthcare

D+0.95

Immigration & Border

D+0.93

Guns

D+0.69

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.33

Environment & Energy

D+0.83

Crime & Policing

D+0.86

Defense & Veterans

D+0.54

Economy & Labor

D+0.79

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.67

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.76

Education

D+0.73

Government & Democracy

D+0.69

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.89

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Cory A. Booker's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Green Party

90%Closest

Democratic Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

88%

Communist Party USA

88%

Libertarian Party

58%

Republican Party

30%

On the political map

Cory A. Booker (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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Caucuses & committees

Where Bookersits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Booker's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.