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This makes permanent a temporary rule that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, D-NJ, ranking member of the Senate Transit subcommittee, requested in March 2019 that prohibits the bridge from opening for marine traffic between 5 and 10 a.m. and 3 and 8 p.m.

The Coast Guard agreed in March to institute the rules as a short-term solution after facing pressure from U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.). 

“I sit with Ghani and I hear about four addendums that are secret,” Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told me. “He only spoke to one of them. The one that he spoke to is that the Taliban will disavow al-Qaeda, but they will not do it publicly.”

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, both Democrats, on Tuesday announced the awarding of more than $144 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Community Planning and Development to support the revitalization of communities across New Jersey.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) blasted Azar during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the president's budget for declining to detail a plan to ensure patients with pre-existing conditions are able to get insurance coverage if the lawsuit spearheaded by Republican state attorneys general and the administration is successful.

The Democratic senators — including Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Cory Booker, D-N.J. — also sent identical letters to four other student and personal loan providers and two service providers, none of which were cited in the report. 

This week, Sen. Bob Menendez said two young children were stranded in China for weeks, locked down due to the outbreak while visiting their grandparents in the city of Wuhan

"Let's talk about jobs. President Trump claimed he would be 'the greatest jobs president that God ever created,' and has repeatedly criticized President Obama's jobs record. Let's compare the last three years of the Obama presidency to the first three years of the Trump presidency. Can you guess who created more jobs?"

“Congress must pass a Marie Yovanovitch act to better protect diplomats and career public servants in the face of an administration that fails to defend them, and even openly attacks them,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said in remarks to the Brookings Institution.

“I’m disappointed in the Army’s rushed decision to select Ft. Knox. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is well-equipped, ready and arguably better strategically placed on the East Coast to stage troops headed for deployment in Europe. JBMDL is the nation’s premiere tri-service base with missions critical to the national defense and security,” Menendez said. “I want to know more about the Army’s selection process and will be calling for full transparency as I seek answers from commanders.”

Days after the Portal Bridge was determined to be eligible for federal funding, Sen. Bob Menendez is pushing for federal money for a new Hudson River train tunnel. During a Capitol Hill hearing, Menendez pressed the chairman of the Federal Reserve on what would happen to the national economy without the infrastructure investment.

“I’m disappointed in the Army’s rushed decision to select Ft. Knox. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is well-equipped, ready and arguably better strategically placed on the East Coast to stage troops headed for deployment in Europe. JBMDL is the nation’s premiere tri-service base with missions critical to the national defense and security,” Menendez said. “I want to know more about the Army’s selection process and will be calling for full transparency as I seek answers from commanders.”

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), another outspoken advocate for the tunnel project, said he will “not stop fighting” until the full federal portion of the tunnel funding is provided by the Trump administration.

"If it were sustained, yes,” Powell said. “Things happen and we fix them and they don’t show up much in GDP, but if they’re sustained, then, yes.”

Powell was responding to a question from U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., after the Trump administration raised the rating on the Portal Bridge, making it eligible for federal funding, but not the Gateway Tunnel under the Hudson River.

This got the attention of most members of Congress, notably Sen. Bob Menendez, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He shared his thoughts in a conversation with Dave D’Alessandro of the Star-Ledger Editorial Board, which was edited for brevity:

Below is a statement submitted by Sen. Menendez into the official Senate record on Tuesday, Feb. 4, explaining his votes to convict President Donald J. Trump on both articles of impeachment. On Wednesday, Feb. 5, the senator voted to convict on both articles of impeachment considered.

U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, a ranking member of the Senate’s transit subcommittee, and Cory Booker, D- NJ, joined six others demanding the Federal Railroad Administration act on plans to advance the Hudson Tunnel Project, a critical element of the Gateway Project.

In a floor speech today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) laid out his rationale for voting to impeach President Donald J. Trump.