WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, today pushed for the expansion of access to affordable child care as the Senate considers the Build Back Better Act that includes key provisions to support working families. During an oversight Committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Janet... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today led a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues in sending a letter urging Charles Rettig, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), to keep phone lines open while clearing the unprecedented backlog of unprocessed returns and to take concrete steps to instead... Read More

WASHINGTON,D.C. –U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), alongside U.S.Representatives Norma Torres (D-Calif.-35) and Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.-03), today introduced the bipartisan, bicameral NationalManufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Supply Chain Database Act. This legislation would establish a national database... Read More

WASHINGTON,D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today were joined by Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in sending a letter urging Charles Rettig, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), to keep phone lines open while clearing the unprecedented... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), el Latino de Más Alto Rango del Congreso, emitió la siguiente declaración en respuesta a informes de que la Administración Biden-Harris reiniciará la política de Permanecer en México de la era Trump para cumplir con una orden judicial:“Aunque comprendo que la Administración está reanudando la... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement in response to reports that the Biden-Harris Administration will restart the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy to comply with a court order:“While I understand the Administration is resuming the Remain in Mexico policy to comply with a court order, I... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) applauded the passage of the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2021 by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The legislation comes after the fatal, targeted attack last year on U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas’s New Jersey home. The bill, named for... Read More

Washington, D.C.—Today, Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.), along with Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, led over 100 Democrats in the Senate and House in the reintroduction of the Access to Birth Control Act. U.S. Representatives Carolyn B.... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today joined a group of his Senate colleagues in urging the Biden Administration to implement changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program that will make it easier for military service members to access benefits. The Department of Education has already provided relief to many... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today formally announced the appointment of Jennifer Morrill as his new Press Secretary in the state of New Jersey. Morrill, a seasoned communications professional, comes from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office and has prior experience in local government and as a news... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S.Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, today led a bipartisan group of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to reiterate the intent of congressionally approved legislation from last year that both the NationalMuseum of the... Read More

MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Ahead of Small Business Saturday, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today announced the introduction of legislation to protect small business borrowers from predatory lenders and loans carrying unclear terms and conditions and would secure safeguards already required in consumer lending, through the Truth in Lending Act. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation:“With the House passage of the Build Back Better Act, we are one step closer to delivering President Biden’s agenda and paving the way for transformational... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, signedon to a bipartisan letter urging Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P. Rettig to investigate recent reports suggesting a private company is charging taxpayers a premium to speak to an IRS representative... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement upon the passage of the bipartisan, bicameral Puerto Rico Recovery Accuracy in Disclosures Act (PRRADA) of 2021 by the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:“When Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today announced $10,349,444 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to address traffic and safety issues along Atlantic Avenue in Atlantic City. In 2019, the Atlantic City Police Department reported over 350 accidents along the Downtown... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today reintroduced the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act. The bipartisan, bicameral legislation, led by Congressmen Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.-03) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.-06) in the U.S. House of Representatives, would prohibit the use of exotic or... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after the White House submitted the 2016 Kigali Amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol for the Senate’s Advice and Consent to U.S. accession. The Kigali Amendment is a global agreement for the phasedown on the... Read More

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today outlined how the historic, $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will provide record investments in New Jersey’s aging infrastructure. The bill, which will send billions of dollars to New Jersey in federal funding, will help the state repair... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today released the following statement after State Senator Nicholas Scutari (LD-22) was chosen as the next New Jersey Senate President:“I want to congratulate Senator Nick Scutari on becoming the next Senate President. For almost 20 years, Senator Scutari has committed himself to advancing... Read More