Cory moved to Newark after law school and started a nonprofit organization to provide legal services for low-income families, helping tenants take on slumlords. In 1998, Cory moved into “Brick Towers” in Newark, which eventually became a housing project. Cory lived there until the housing project was demolished in 2006.
Cory still lives in Newark's Central Ward today, where he sees first-hand many of the challenges he's working to solve in Congress, such as lack of access to affordable health care, environmental injustice, food insecurity, and our broken criminal justice system.
Cory believes we need to substantially increase the federal investment in our nation’s transportation infrastructure in order to help rebuild New Jersey’s aging roads, bridges, rail systems, airports, and seaports. In the Senate, he has been a leader in advancing the critical Gateway Project, which will rebuild the crumbling rail lines between New Jersey and New York Penn Station. He has also worked to help deliver additional resources to New Jersey through his work on the Environment and Public Works Committee, which oversees funding for federal highways.