[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16213]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATOR-ELECT CORY BOOKER

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this week we are going to say goodbye to our 
colleague who was appointed to represent the State of New Jersey after 
the untimely death of Frank Lautenberg, but we also will welcome a new 
Member to the Senate, Senator-elect from the State of New Jersey Cory 
Booker. What a remarkable young man he is.
  He was a student at Stanford, and to get into Stanford you have to be 
a very good student. I am impressed with his academic skills, but he 
was also a tight end for the football team at Stanford, No. 5 in the 
Nation. They have a great football program. Everyone will meet Cory 
Booker and find that he is a very big man physically.
  After graduating with a degree from Stanford in political science, he 
got his master's degree in sociology from Stanford. He then became a 
Rhodes Scholar and studied U.S. history at Oxford. He received his law 
degree from Yale. What an outstanding record: Stanford, a couple of 
degrees; Rhodes Scholar, Oxford; Yale Law School. That is quite 
impressive. Then he served on the Newark City Council and was mayor for 
2 years, a job that has been noticed all over the country, recognizing 
the great work he has done.

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