NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) today announced a combined $5,747,440 in federal funds to support New Jersey’s health care providers and their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds awarded through the U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Ted Cruz (R-Tx), in introducing a Senate Resolution reaffirming the partnership between the United States and the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today announced the awarding of $23,388,253.49 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA) grants to support the New Jersey Department of Health’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawmakers have now... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the opening remarks at today’s committee hearing on COVID-19 and International Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention, and Response. “The American people deserve to hear from members of the President’s hand-picked team... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today unveiled a new report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic staff on the global forced migration crisis. Published in advance of World Refugee Day on June 20, the report represents the culmination of an exhaustive SFRC... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) released the following statement in reaction to today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting President Trump’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program which protected hundreds of thousands of Dreamers from... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today announced the Maintaining United States National Security Interests in Europe Act, bicameral legislation to restrict funding for the implementation of President... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after Michael Pack, President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), abruptly fired all of the network heads and their corporate boards on his first week at the... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling for a full accounting of President Donald Trump’s ongoing business relationship with a Chinese state-controlled bank. Following former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s revelation that President Trump asked... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.), joined all Senate Democrats in introducing a Senate resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month. The resolution highlights the contributions LGBTQ individuals have made to American society, notes several major milestones in the fight for equal treatment of LGBTQ... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) were joined today by four of their Senate colleagues in introducing the Keeping Women and Girls Safe from the Start Authorization Act of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, today questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on the disproportionate economic impact the pandemic is having minority-owned businesses and the African-American and Hispanic communities at large. Sen. Menendez highlighted the need... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-De.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today released the following statements after the Senate unanimously approved S.712, the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, today sent a letter today to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper demanding answers regarding the current status of U.S. security assistance to the government of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of countless instances of clearly-identified members of the media being arrested, hurt or roughly handled by police or others while covering nationwide protests, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio),... Read More

NEWARK – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,issued the following statement in reaction to Moscow’s sham trial against former U.S. marine Paul Whelan after he was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in prison on Monday: “Today's sentencing of wrongfully... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today announced the awarding of a combined $26,390,478.40 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA) grants to support New Jersey’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawmakers have now secured over $134... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statements after the Senate unanimously passed their bipartisan Resolution lauding State Department professionals for their efforts to bring home Americans stranded abroad... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today released the following statements after the Senate unanimously approved their resolution calling for the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Boker (both D-N.J.), and a group of Senate colleagues urged the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to act quickly to complete the rulemaking process to provide clear rules concerning disclaimers on online political advertisements. The letter follows a nearly ten month period where the FEC... Read More