Booker’s First Week in Washington

Ruby Cramer notes how Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) once said he might “hack the Senate.”

“But his first week in the Senate — marked by deference to his colleagues, near-constant admissions that he has much to learn, and an obsessive focus on his home state — looked nothing at all like the jolt to the Beltway he articulated earlier this year, before the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg. And as Booker works to gain his footing in ‘the world’s greatest deliberative body,’ it remains an open question whether he has the wherewithal to match his reformist rhetoric with action.”