WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest ranking Latino in the U.S. Congress, today stood on the U.S. Senate Floor to deliver a scathing rebuke of last week’s racist remarks by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) regarding Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. CLICK HERE TO WATCH SEN.... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez officially opened his new office today at Harborside in Jersey City, relocating his main state office from Newark.  It also marks the first time in at least a half-century that a U.S. Senate office has been located in Hudson County, according to available public records.“I’ll miss working in Newark,... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ranking Member of the SFRC Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, are calling on the Biden administration to re-designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In a letter to  Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro... Read More

ELIZABETH, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) were joined today by Governor Phil Murphy, local mayors and first responders on the steps of Elizabeth City Hall to discuss how $10.2 billion in direct, flexible, federal assistance they delivered for New Jersey will help the state and local communities combat COVID-19, keep... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) released the following breakdown of how New Jerseyans will benefit from the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill approved by Congress and expected to be soon signed into law by President Biden:CLICK HERE to read Sen. Menendez’s full statement.CLICK... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) led several Democratic colleagues in urging the Biden Administration to remove the National Rifle Association (NRA) Foundation from the list of charities eligible to solicit and receive contributions from federal employees during the yearly Combined Federal... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that oversees national health policy, and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today celebrated the inclusion of a key provision in the American Rescue Plan that will permanently unlock millions annually in Medicare dollars for New Jersey’s... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that oversees national health policy, and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today celebrated the inclusion of a key provision in the American Rescue Plan that will permanently unlock millions annually in Medicare dollars for New Jersey’s... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), today sent a letter to Costa Rican Ambassador Fernando Llorca Castro urging his assistance in returning American citizen  Camille Stefanick Berrocal to the United States. Camille was abducted by... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today led ten of their Senate colleagues in introducing theKeeping Women and Girls Safe from the Start Act of 2021. Introduced on the heels of International Women’s Day, the bipartisan legislation seeks... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement on the passing of former Middlesex County Freeholder Blanquita Valenti:“It is with deep sadness that we mourn the loss of former Freeholder Blanquita Valenti.  She was the first Latina to serve on the Middlesex County Board of Chosen... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today joined over 100 of their Senate and House colleagues in unveiling a resolution to mark the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The resolution is a reminder that the fight to end racist violence against Black people in the United States -- often... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and 19 democratic colleagues re-introduced the Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act (PHISLA). The legislation would establish a new core public health infrastructure program which ramps up to $4.5 billion... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez today joined Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.0, and Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) in reintroducing the bicameral COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Data Transparency Act, which would require immigration-detention facilities to collect and publicly report data about... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced $107,827,965 in federal funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to boost the New Jersey Department of Health’s (NJDOH) vaccine distribution efforts. “This funding will help ensure vaccines are distributed far and wide across New Jersey,” said Sen.... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing entitled “The State of Democracy Around the World.”  “In every region of the world today, authoritarian governments are seizing more and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today released a county-by-county and town-by-town breakdown of the $10.189 billion in direct, flexible, federal assistance to state and local governments allocated to New Jersey in the American Rescue Plan.  The final funding formula targets federal resources to areas... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in observance of the anniversary of Robert Levinson’s wrongful detention in Iran:“Bob was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather who the Iranian regime wrongfully detained for more than a decade. Throughout... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led nine of their SFRC colleagues in introducing a bipartisan resolution in observance of the 10th anniversary of the Syrian uprising.  In addition to calling on the United States to support... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today led a letter along with Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urging President Joe Biden to take executive action to close the “ghost gun” loophole in the Gun Control Act, which allows individuals—including domestic abusers,... Read More