Talk:Political positions of Cory Booker

Neutral PoV
This page reads more like a political speech than an encyclopedic article. Anyone agree? Meuspater (talk) 02:59, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Drug pricing vote
I believe that the passage of text quoted at the end of this message does not belong in this article because it is factually wrong or misleading, some of the sources quoted are not credible, and the passage is not idiomatic with the rest of the article. It seems that I am not the first editor to remove this and have that removal reverted, so perhaps some discussion is warranted.

Passage: , where many drugs (including those produced in the US) are more affordable than in the United States itself. Had the amendment passed, it was likely to have significantly lowered drug prices in the United States. At the time of the vote, Booker had received over a quarter of a million dollars from the pharmaceutical industry ($267,338). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victor veitch (talk • contribs) 07:56, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Why do we even need this article
It appears to be little more than a content fork. Sorry. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 20:43, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * An editor suggested that we don't need this article which has existed for several years and without any discussion what so ever a few days later it rec'd this tag:


 * This article was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 18 March 2017 with a consensus to merge the content into the article Cory Booker. If you find that such action has not been taken promptly, please consider assisting in the merger instead of re-nominating the article for deletion. To discuss the merger, please use the destination article's talk page. (March 2017)


 * Many of our bios of political figures have separate political positions pages -- perhaps even most of them do. Booker is one of the Dems that are considered to be possible presidential candidates in the future and we can only expect his article to grow.  I'm removing the tag.  Gandydancer (talk) 14:36, 19 September 2017 (UTC)


 * The deletion discussion was linked in the notice, and is here. The best course of action is to seek a deletion review. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 19:48, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Foreign policy
I suggest adding the following, please help. Tony85poon (talk) 04:23, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Regarding Ilhan Omar, Booker responded differently than Warren, Sanders and Harris and found Omar's comments disturbing.
 * I disagree. This isn't informative without context, and would be undue and still not very noteworthy even with context. R2 (bleep) 04:54, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Israel Section Corrections
There is a confusion of information in this section that needs correction, but I want to make sure I understand it correctly before I fix it. Here are the two sentences as they currently exist.

Booker cosponsored a bill that would prohibit U.S. companies from joining the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel.[105]

In February 2019, Booker voted against pro-Israel Anti-Boycott Act,[108] which would make it illegal for U.S. companies to engage in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.[109]

As best I can tell, the information here is backwards. I think this paragraph from reference 108 demonstrates the problem, and that reference 108 is misused here, because that article is not about who voted against the "Anti-Boycott act," but those who voted against the "Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019"

"Cory Booker of New Jersey: “I have a strong and lengthy record of opposing efforts to boycott Israel, as evidenced by my cosponsorship of S. 720, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act. However, this specific piece of legislation contains provisions that raise serious First Amendment concerns, and that’s why I voted against it. I drafted an amendment to help address these widely-held concerns, but there was no amendment process offered to allow for this bill to be improved."

So, assuming I have this clear, I think the section should be written like so:

"In November of 2018, Booker cosponsored the Anti-Boycott Act that would prohibit U.S. companies from joining the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel, by allowing individual states to require contractors to sign a pledge saying that they would not boycott any goods from Israel, or their contracts would be terminated.[105][109] In February of 2019 Booker voted against the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019, which contained similar provisions against boycotts, stating that this act did not contain First Amendment protections of individual free speech which had been added to the Anti-Boycott Act via amendment.[108]"

I got the date for his co-sponsoring of the Anti-Boycott Act here (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/720/cosponsors), though I'm not sure if it needs a source for that date or not. I just thought putting the dates helped clarify that we're talking about two different pieces of legislation that were being debated around the same time.CleverTitania (talk) 23:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)