WASHINGTON - WASHINGTON (AP) - when the U.S. Senate passed a Bill to ban discrimination against homosexuals and transsexuals, people your new Member's first impulse was to scream with joy. Then remembered where was.
On the other hand, Cory Booker reached in his pocket for his phone.
"I have everything via Twitter," said Booker, which has 1.4 million followers.
Booker, 44-year-old former Democratic Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, entered in the Congress as a rookie Senator rare with celebrity status. It has been dubbed a mayor by Oprah Winfrey rock star, has been called a hero for pulling a neighbour from his burning home in 2012 and hobnobbing with Matt Damon.
During his first week in the Congress, Booker tried to balance immersion in his new job with standing of his colleagues in the Senate already serious 99. Booker allowed The Associated Press to its comings and goings of the shadow.
"The model encouraged you to follow when Franken or Hillary Clinton," said Delaware Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat and a friend of Booker. "People who came to the Senate with large national profiles but showed the will to work, to eat, to visit every corner of their State and really focus on the interests of the hogar-estado".
Coons came into the Senate after a special election in 2010. It is helping Booker, who also won a special election, sails and knows what it is to start working with no orientation and a minimum of staff.
After an oath that fills on 31 October with the media and fans, Booker has been mostly out of the spotlight. He is studying the minutiae of the rules of the Senate and he has participated in many meetings. It has worked in the Senate gym to meet with colleagues and attended a bipartisan prayer breakfast.
Known for his soaring oratory and confidence, is now listening to and making questions, sometimes seem overwhelmed or confused - and shows flashes of his brash sense of humor in the midst of the business of the day.
At his first hearing on Wednesday of the Committee, joked that "I still have that smell new Senator" after saying that the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which would devastate higher flood insurance rates New Jersey areas.
Vice President Joe Biden asked if he could lie down on the couch. And responded to a question on Twitter about his thoughts on working with romances: 'no! Especially if you have 99 colleagues in 1 body more August world".
Two times he went to the White House. He joined a group of Democratic Senators Wednesday, and hours after being sworn in, had a private visit with President Barack Obama.
"There was a guy with a soccer ball and took it, and the President and I had a small problem," said Booker, who played football at Stanford. Obama, said, congratulated his spiral.
Booker was the first to arrive at a Democratic caucus lunch Tuesday, building up your plate with vegetables. He had peeled plastic wrap from a bowl as Luisiana Senator Mary Landrieu came. The two towards the back of the room and sat down.
"Senator Menéndez came and said: 'That's my seat'." And of course I went into panic,"said Booker. "Would at first I said to myself, ' Oh my God, really sitting in your seat?'" Another Senator came and I tried to play the same trick on me."
Booker and his mother, Carolyn, met privately with Harry Reid of Nevada majority leader. Father of Booker, Cary, suffered a stroke in August shortly after moving to Las Vegas, and days before the Democratic primary Booker. Reid visited his bedside table at night, and when he died on 10 October, Reid approached Booker and his family.
In many ways, Booker is only a man accustomed to a new job - learning the rules and his colleagues, as everyone has had at some point.
It received its first vote minutes after being sworn in and thought votes were cast by pressing a button or a lever. On the other hand, he learned, "raise your hand." In a vote, Booker lost its name while chatting with colleagues and marked by the Secretary of the Senate, vote Yes with a thumbs-up.
It brought a directory of Congress Thursday and observed carefully, occasionally glancing to match it with a Senator with a photo of each speaker. He is also learning how to navigate the maze that is the Capitol and its office buildings.
"This is the way home?" he asked his Chief of staff as the two crossed the basement of the Senate.
He said he plans to advocate for the residents of New Jersey, waiting to make sure that they receive unclaimed income credits and help victims of superstorm Sandy. He met with ethics official to see how you can make the associations public - private for New Jersey, as he did in Newark - most famous with a donation of $100 million of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg founding schools of the city.
And although he has been caring for his manners, it is still the same Cory Booker. A stalwart supporter of gay rights, finally left that cry into his office after the vote of labour discrimination.
"Call all in New Jersey," Booker told his staff, "and tell them that we are a step closer to a nation equal."
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