WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) joined 41 Senate Democrats in urging Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra to quickly finalize the proposed rule for the Title X family planning program that would reverse the Trump Administration’s gag rule, commit to health equity, and ensure that... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by a group of leading Democratic Senators in condemning the Trump Administration’s demand for the United Nations to remove all references to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) from the Global Humanitarian Response Plan... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today joined a bipartisan group of 38 colleagues requesting that any future legislation to address COVID-19 includes support for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The senators express concern that service providers are reporting that abusers... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today joined the entire Democratic caucus in introducing the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. The bill, which would reauthorize VAWA through 2024, preserves advancements made in previous reauthorizations and includes a number of additional improvements to the current... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and Cory Booker today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services $10,821,021 for its Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the United States Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) was being cheered by thousands of fans at the ticker tape parade in New York City today, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) led their colleagues in introducing a bipartisan Senate resolution... Read More

UNION, N.J. – Hundreds of New Jerseyans joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez on Sunday at Kean University for his Ninth Annual Women’s History Month Celebration, which honored seven outstanding New Jersey women with the Evangelina Menendez Trailblazer Award for their exceptional achievements. “Today, we honor incredible women from... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17), and colleagues in reintroduction of the Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act. The legislation would permanently repeal the harmful Global Gag... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, along with a group of 30 male Senate colleagues today joined calls, led by women of the Senate, for the Majority and Minority Leaders to bring to the Senate floor legislation reforming how Congress handles cases of sexual harassment. On March 28, all of the women Senators of both... Read More

UNION, N.J. – Nearly 1,000 people from across the Garden State joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez yesterday at Kean University for his Eighth Annual Women’s History Month Celebration, which honored six outstanding New Jersey women with the Evangelina Menendez Trailblazer Award for their exceptional achievements. “We come together... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In recognition of Women’s History Month, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced a bill that would posthumously bestow women right’s leader Alice Paul with a Congressional Gold Medal. From Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Alice Paul inspired others globally, including by staging a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dressed in black, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and Patricia Teffenhart, Executive Director of New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA), today voiced their strong support of the #MeToo movement ahead of tonight’s State of the Union Address. Senator Menendez invited Patricia as his guest because of all the work... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets federal tax policy, today announced that he plans to introduce legislation to fix an egregious error by Republicans in their recently-passed tax bill that failed to accurately reflect the legislative intent of an amendment the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With reproductive rights increasingly under assault by the Trump Administration, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker have re-introduced a bill to protect women’s access to birth control. No one should be able to interfere with a woman’s health care decisions, but sadly, there have been reports of... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), bipartisan legislation that would ensure combatting gender-based violence around the world remains a top diplomatic and development priority for the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today announced $4,614,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the New Jersey Family Planning League (NJFPL) to provide comprehensive family planning and preventive health care services to low-income New Jersey women, teens and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), in an effort led by Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), today sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price with 37 Senators questioning plans by HHS to unilaterally shorten the duration of grant agreements for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program.... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), ranking member and chair, respectively, of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Global Women’s Issues, today introduced the Protecting Girls’ Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act. This legislation would ensure that children overseas... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today cheered the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s announcement that New Jersey-born suffragette Alice Paul will be commemorated on the new $10 bill. The back side of the $10 bill will honor women instrumental in the passage of the 19th Amendment, and Ms. Paul will appear with fellow... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – On Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez applauded the designation by President Obama of the new Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument to honor the movement for women’s equality. The new monument is named in part for Alice Paul, who founded the National Women’s Party and who drafted the Equal... Read More