Cory Booker | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Cory Booker


00:02:58 1 Early life and education
00:04:47 2 Newark Municipal Council
00:05:46 3 Mayor of Newark
00:05:55 3.1 Mayoral campaigns
00:06:04 3.1.1 2002 election
00:07:07 3.1.2 2006 election
00:08:06 3.1.3 2010 election
00:08:44 3.2 Tenure
00:09:56 3.2.1 First term
00:12:36 3.2.2 Second term
00:15:42 3.2.3 Newark Watershed
00:16:23 3.3 Public opinion polling
00:16:58 3.4 Legacy
00:18:06 4 U.S. Senate
00:18:11 4.1 2013 election
00:19:38 4.2 Tenure
00:24:25 4.3 Committee assignments
00:25:42 4.4 Caucus memberships
00:25:57 4.5 2014 election
00:27:06 5 Political positions
00:30:40 5.1 Domestic policy
00:30:48 5.1.1 Abortion
00:31:00 5.1.2 Affirmative action
00:31:24 5.1.3 Budget
00:32:20 5.1.4 Civil liberties
00:32:47 5.1.5 Climate change
00:33:23 5.1.6 Confederate monuments
00:33:43 5.1.7 Education
00:34:29 5.1.8 Gun rights
00:34:51 5.1.9 Healthcare
00:35:33 5.1.10 Immigration
00:36:51 5.1.11 LGBT rights
00:38:02 5.1.12 Minimum wage
00:38:46 5.1.13 Free market
00:39:54 5.1.14 Social security
00:40:16 5.1.15 Taxes
00:40:41 5.1.16 War on Drugs
00:41:33 5.1.17 Labor
00:41:56 5.2 Foreign policy
00:42:04 5.2.1 Afghanistan
00:42:21 5.2.2 Iran
00:42:52 5.2.2.1 Iran Nuclear Deal
00:43:17 5.2.3 Israel
00:43:43 5.2.4 Syria
00:44:36 6 Other activities
00:44:45 6.1 Obama association
00:45:58 6.2 Affiliations and honors
00:48:55 6.3 Films
00:49:53 6.4 Mark Zuckerberg donation
00:51:05 6.5 Conan O'Brien "feud"
00:51:59 6.6 Waywire
00:52:58 7 Personal life
00:54:43 8 Electoral history
00:54:53 9 See also



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Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey since 2013 and a member of the Democratic Party. The first African-American U.S. Senator from New Jersey, he was previously the 36th Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. Before that Booker served on the Newark City Council for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002. 
Booker was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey. He attended Stanford University where he received an undergraduate and master's degree in 1991 and 1992, respectively. He studied abroad at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School. He won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark in 1998 where he staged a 10-day hunger strike and briefly lived in a tent to draw attention to urban development issues in the city. He ran for mayor in 2002, but lost to incumbent Sharpe James; he ran again in 2006 and won against deputy mayor Ronald Rice. His first term saw to the doubling of affordable housing under development and the reduction of the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million. He was re-elected in 2010. He ran against Steve Lonegan in the 2013 U.S. Senate special election and subsequently won reelection in 2014 against Jeff Bell.
During his five years in office, Booker co-sponsored and voted for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (2013), tougher sanctions against Iran, sponsored the Bipartisan Budget Act (2013), voted for the National Defense Authorization Act (2014) and co-sponsored the Respect for Marriage Act (2014). In 2017, he became the first sitting senator to testify against another when he testified against Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearing. In April 2018, following the FBI raid on the offices of Michael Cohen–U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney–Booker together with Chris Coons, Lindsey Graham, and Thom Tillis, introduced the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act to limit the executive powers of Trump.
As mayor, he was described as a New Democrat and as a political moderate, known for defending Bain Capital during the 2012 presidential election and for supporting school vouchers. As senator, his voting record was measured as the third most liberal. Considered a social liberal, Booker supports women's rights, affirmative action,  ...