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"Congress and governmental agencies rely on data to create better health programs, direct vital resources to communities, and better the health of all people," Menendez said.

The amended bill completely eliminates any population threshold to qualify for aid, “allowing every state, county, municipality, U.S. territory and the District of Columbia to qualify for direct federal assistance, regardless of its size,” Menendez and Cassidy said in a release.

“There isn’t a place in America right now that isn’t or won’t be impacted,” said Menendez, the bill’s prime Democratic sponsor in the Senate. “Our state and local governments can’t do this alone. A national emergency requires a national response.”

Under the bipartisan bill that’s being sponsored by Menendez and U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), among others, the nearly $500 billion in aid would be distributed using a formula that would consider three factors: population, COVID-19 infection rates and the depth of any revenue losses.

The investigation is aimed at determining whether the act was one of illegal retaliation intended to shield Mr. Pompeo from accountability — which “would undermine the foundation of our democratic institutions,” Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York and Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, leading Democrats on foreign policy committees, said in a joint statement.

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is leading a bipartisan request to the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve asking them to ease borrowing costs for state and local governments that are ailing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"With federal, state, and local elections slated for November 2020, Facebook has a responsibility to ensure that its platforms do not become a hotbed of disinformation," says the letter, from Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Kamala Harris of California, and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

“Whether inadvertent or intentional, this troubling report warrants a response from your agencies,” the senators, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Tina Smith of Minnesota, wrote in the letter.

What to watch: Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) plan to introduce bipartisan legislation as soon as next week that would create a $500 billion fund designed to help struggling state and municipality budgets in the wake of COVID-19.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and 19 other senators signed the letter, saying access to loan forgiveness is a “critical” piece of the CARES Act. They warned keeping the cap at 25% would hurt many small businesses.

“Senator Menendez’s bipartisan SMART Fund legislation will ensure our towns and cities get the resources we desperately need to keep law enforcement on the job and in our neighborhoods and urge his colleagues in Congress to pass it.”

In total, Vergano predicts that revenue stream loss in Wayne Township could end up anywhere between $850-950 thousand. This, hypothetically, is where Menendez's newly introduced legislation could come into play.

“Senator Menendez’s bipartisan SMART Fund legislation will ensure our towns and cities get the resources we desperately need to keep law enforcement on the job and in our neighborhoods and urge his colleagues in Congress to pass it,” he said.

Menendez and Republican Bill Cassidy of Louisiana will introduce a bill that will create a $500 billion fund to help states and local governments continue to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and still provide the essential services.

“New Jersey’s hospitals and health care providers have been pushing full throttle, doing whatever it takes to beat back this pandemic and provide care and treatment to patients,” said U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.

Fossil fuel companies improperly claimed almost $1.1 billion in clean air tax credits, according to a U.S. Treasury Department Inspector General investigation initiated by U.S. Senator Bob Menendez.

Menendez says it's particularly egregious that people like Vanessa Arita and Lynette Spencer are only being penalized because they filed taxes jointly with their spouses, something the government instructs couples going through the immigration process to do.

In the absence of action by the President to protect America’s TPS holders, Congress can and must step up and do the right thing. It is time to lift the cloud hanging over TPS holders’ futures by providing them with a pathway citizenship. The bipartisan American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (H.R.6) passed the House of Representatives last year, and it is time for the Senate to follow suit.

Menendez said essential workers covered by the programs are risking their lives while they care for the sick, work double shifts and comfort the dying.

Durante una teleconferencia ofrecida este martes por el senador Menéndez y el por el líder de la minoría demócrata en el Senado, Chuck Schumer, de Nueva York, enfatizaron algunos puntos sobre la importancia de dar protección especial a los trabajadores del TPS. Entre la comunidad salvadoreña en Estados Unidos unos 295 mil salvadoreños son beneficiarios de este programa desde el año 2001, y gran parte de estos trabajan como empleados esenciales en estos días.