Senator Cory Booker engages Alexis Lewis, introduces a new bill on pesticide accountability, and gears up to publish his next book Stand, which marks another turning point in his life and career.
Recent Headlines
- Cory Booker Is Engaged
- On September 2, 2025, Senator Booker shared photos of their celebratory engagement in Hawaii and announced that he proposed to his long-time partner Alexis Lewis. He referred to her as an unmerited gift and, he was excited to live with her.
Again, a better professional background of Alexis Lewis (3738 years old) is a strong one: she graduated Sidwell Friends School, got a diploma at NYU and Cornell, worked as Economic Policy Manager at the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles and is a Senior Vice President of Investments at Brasa Capital Management now.
Social media had been filled with comments as to how Lewis resembles the former girlfriend of Booker, actress Rosario Dawson, with some making the joke that Cory Booker is marrying a Rosario Dawson look-alike.
- The couple had dated more than a year (some say a year and a half) and were cohabiting in Washington, D.C.
Booker himself had shattered his lifelong status of being a bachelor–during his 2020 presidential campaign–debating whether he would one day become a bridegroom. Today he is technically single.
- HB 12599 Pushing Environmental Accountability: Pesticide Injury Accountability Act.
In August, Booker unveiled a bill, the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act that would permit individuals to pursue legal claims for health-related damages against large-pesticide producers (such as Bayer and Syngenta) in federal court, circumventing obstacles imposed by some state legislation.
The legislation is a reactionary measure to worries that certain pesticides that are commonly used in the United States are highly hazardous to human health, including cancer and Parkinson disease, which have been banned in other countries. It has 17 health and environmental advocacy groups on its side.
- Taking a Harder Political Line.
- The public image of Booker is changing: where he was previously perceived as the Mr. Nice Guy of the Senate, in the past few months he has taken a more combative stance – giving a fiery speech and confronting Democratic colleagues on questions of funding and policy.
- That change can be understood as his possible move toward a 2028 presidential campaign, bolstered by robust fundraising performance-he brought in 10 million dollars by the second quarter of 2025, second only among U.S. Senators.
- Filibuster to Book Deal–And Criticism.
- In January of this year, Booker gave a 25-hour-plus Senate speech (March 31 April 1, 2025) to protest Trump-era policies, and established a new record on the length of a Senate speech.
That speech is already being capitalized in an upcoming book, Stand, which will be published in November–and critics are already complaining that Booker is capitalizing on a dramatic political event to accrue personal benefit.
More about Cory Booker-
- Alexis Lewis – Booker’s Fiancée
- Senator Cory Booker confirmed his commitment to Alexis Lewis – he described her as one of the greatest unearned gifts of his life and how she has made him more grounded and enabled them to create a nurturing home together.
Lewis, who is in her late 30s (sources differ between 37 and 38), is an experienced real estate investment expert. She received a bachelor of degree at New York University and a master of business at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell.
Her experience also includes working as Economic Policy Manager in the Los Angeles Mayor Office and Senior Vice President of Investments at Brasa Capital Management.
- The couple met through a blind date in mid-2024, and they have lived together in Washington, D.C., and dated about one and a half years.
As soon as social media discovered the resemblance between Lewis and the ex of Booker, Rosario Dawson they made jabs about him having a type.
- Pesticide Injury Accountability Act 2025.
This bill (S. 2324) was introduced by Senator Booker to establish a federal private right of action, so people could sue manufacturers of pesticides in federal court and obtain damages due to exposure to harmful products.
- The bill is an attempt to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to provide a legal avenue in situations where existing federal law, or lobbying efforts by industry, places companies beyond liability.
Booker pointed out that certain pesticides that have been prohibited in other countries are still in use in America, and exposure to such chemicals has been associated with cancer and Parkinson disease among other severe injuries. He condemned efforts by businesses to escape liability and technical obstacles in state courts.
- The bill is supported by 17 health, environmental and consumer advocacy groups including Moms Across America.
Bayer and Syngenta are large agricultural chemical companies that are beset with thousands of lawsuits due to their apparent damage to people via glyphosate and paraquat. The bill by Booker would create a new federal path to legal redress without repealing the state legislation that restricts liability.
- Stand – Book to be written by Cory Booker.
- The book, Stand, builds on the Senate floor speech by Booker in April 2025, when he attacked Trump-era policies in a marathon (25 hours and counting) speech, making the speech the longest speech in Senate history.
Published on November 11, 2025, by St. Martin’s Press, the book draws on the themes of bravery, doing the right thing, and national ideals–calling on the reader not only to resist, but to fight in the name of something higher.
The book is a reaction to that historic speech and seeks to make the momentum of that speech a permanent moral and civic statement.
There has been criticism of Booker, however–some have considered the book opportunistic, a sort of a grift that capitalizes on a political moment.
Conclusion-
Senator Cory Booker is beginning a new stage. When he is engaged to Alexis Lewis, his days as a bachelor are over and stability and a partner are introduced into his life. At work, he is sponsoring courageous bills such as the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act that could portray him as the people hero and corporate responsibility champion. Meanwhile, his next book Stand is an effort to turn his record-breaking Senate speech into a permanent message of moral leadership.
Collectively, these changes tell the story of a politician growing up, finding the right balance between love, lawmaking ambition, and message to the people, as he hones his own image towards the decades to come, perhaps with 2028 in mind.
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