We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

After his first week in office Booker announced a 100-day plan to implement reforms in Newark. As well as raising over $6 million for the race Booker attacked Rice as a "political crony" of James. In February 2013 responding to a Twitter post Booker helped a nervous constituent propose to his girlfriend.

He was first elected in 2006 and had previously served as a Newark City Councilor from 1998 to 2002. He is a graduate of Stanford University Yale Law School and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.