Fight to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits for seniors.

we must make good on our promise to seniors and fight to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits.

Booker committed to protecting Medicare and Social Security benefits for seniors.

Ensuring Economic Fairness and Security | Cory Booker for US Senate
primary · campaign_site · model gpt-5.5

Congress.gov lists H.R.2 as a law, Public Law No. 114-10. The Senate passed it on April 14, 2015 by Yea-Nay Vote 92-8, and the CRS summary says Title I removed the Medicare sustainable growth rate methodology for physician payment updates and revised Medicare physician payment rates.

During the Senate term won in 2014, Congress enacted a Medicare access/payment law that repealed the SGR physician-payment formula and extended Medicare-related provisions, supporting the Medicare-protection component of the promise.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.2 - Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%

Senate Roll Call Vote 144 was on passage of H.R.2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. The bill passed 92-8; Sen. Booker is recorded as voting yea.

Booker voted for the 2015 Medicare access law in the same term, a concrete vote aligned with protecting Medicare access for seniors.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 114th Congress - 1st Session, Vote 144, H.R.2
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%

Congress.gov identifies S.1804 as the Medicare for All Act of 2017, introduced September 13, 2017, referred to the Senate Finance Committee, and summarized as establishing a national health insurance program administered by HHS covering all U.S. residents and specified services including hospital, prescription drug, dental, and vision services.

The bill did not pass, but it was a concrete same-term legislative effort to expand Medicare-style coverage and benefits.

partial same_term A for effort

S.1804 - Medicare for All Act of 2017
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

Congress.gov lists Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] as an original cosponsor of S.1804 on September 13, 2017.

Booker personally cosponsored the Medicare for All Act during the same Senate term, showing concrete action on Medicare expansion/protection, though the bill remained introduced.

partial same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - S.1804 - Medicare for All Act of 2017
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%

Congress.gov summarizes S.597 as repealing provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other benefits, eliminating the government pension offset and windfall elimination provision, effective for benefits payable after December 2023.

The Senate bill targeted reductions in Social Security benefits, directly matching the promise's Social Security-benefit protection component, but it was introduced in a later term and did not itself become law.

partial later_term A for effort

S.597 - Social Security Fairness Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

Congress.gov lists Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] as an original cosponsor of S.597 on March 1, 2023.

Booker personally joined the Senate Social Security Fairness Act as an original cosponsor, a concrete later-term effort to prevent Social Security benefit reductions for affected retirees and survivors.

partial later_term A for effort

Cosponsors - S.597 - Social Security Fairness Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

Congress.gov lists H.R.82 as Public Law No. 118-273, enacted January 5, 2025. The public-law summary says the act repeals provisions that reduce Social Security benefits, eliminates the government pension offset, and eliminates the windfall elimination provision, effective for benefits payable after December 2023.

The enacted Social Security Fairness Act delivered a later-term Social Security benefit protection by repealing two benefit-reduction provisions.

delivered later_term A for effort

H.R.82 - Social Security Fairness Act of 2023
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

The Senate roll call for H.R.82 shows the question was passage of the bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions. The vote result was Bill Passed, 76 yeas to 20 nays, and Booker (D-NJ) is listed as Yea.

Booker voted for final Senate passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, which then became law, directly supporting delivery on protecting Social Security benefits in a later Senate term.

delivered later_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 118th Congress - 2nd Session, Vote 338, H.R.82
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 98%