WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined President Biden in the White House for a meeting with a group of Cuban American leaders. They discussed the ongoing situation in Cuba and the actions the Administration has taken in support of the historic pro-democracy movement on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, joined 25 of his colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives in sending letters to tech CEOs to raise the alarm over the increasing rate of Spanish and other non-English language disinformation across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Gary Peter (D-Mich.) today introduced bicameral legislation that aims to increase diversity in ownership of television and radio broadcast stations among women and minorities. The Broadcast Varied Ownership Incentives for Community Expanded Services Act (Broadcast VOICES Act)... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, today delivered opening remarks on his Puerto Rico Recovery Accuracy in Disclosures Act of 2021 (PRRADA) during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. This bipartisan and bicameral piece of legislation would require consultants... 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 to consider the nominations of the Honorable Kenneth Lee Salazar to be Ambassador to the United Mexican States; Ms. Jessica Lewis to be an Assistant Secretary of State... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today was joined by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, in introducing a Senate Resolution commemorating the 200th anniversary of Peru’s independence. The bipartisan... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today took to the Senate Floor to deliver remarks on the trajectory of United States policy toward Cuba. The Senator outlined his recent consultations with President Biden and Secretary Blinken on how to continue supporting the island’s... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.-15) today reintroduced legislation to better protect journalists and the free press who are essential to our democracy. The Journalist Protection Act would make intentionally harming a working journalist or intentionally... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), co-chairmen of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, today released the below statements following the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s unanimous passage of their legislation to direct the State Department to develop a strategy to assist Taiwan in... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), in releasing... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to publically release all available data pertaining to vaccine misinformation on its social media platform. Despite numerous calls from the Senator, Facebook continues to refuse to share the specific number of users who have viewed vaccine... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and John Cornyn (R-Tex.) today applauded unanimous Senate passage of the Providing Adequate Resources to Enhance Needed Time with Sons and Daughters (PARENTS) Act, which will ensure children of separated or divorced parents have a set schedule that will allow them to spend frequent quality time... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today reintroduced the Territory Economic Development Tax Credit Act (TEDTCA), which would create a tax credit for wages and tangible investments made by U.S. based businesses in the U.S. territories. This crucial bill... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today joined officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) and New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) to announce $44 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to improve and modernize the northern access... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance and Banking Committees, was joined by Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Senate Banking Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in introducing legislation to expand the American Opportunity Tax Credit... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.),Chairman of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, today chaired a hearing entitled “Examining Frameworks to Address Future Pandemic Risk.”  During its first hearing, the Subcommittee heard testimony from a group of experts, business leaders, and insurance... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, delivered the following opening remarks at today’s hearing, entitled “Examining Frameworks to Address Future Pandemic Risk.”  The Subcommittee heard testimony from a group of experts, businesses... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Biden Administration announced it would continue its efforts to support Cuba’s pro-democracy movement by imposing additional targeted sanctions on regime officials for their human rights abuses:“Government is... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by his counterparts in the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in issuing the following joint statement to condemn the Cuban regime’s violent crackdown on the island’s pro-democracy movement... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech in Cyprus, where he announced he would step up his campaign to undermine the island’s peace negotiations by opening the coastline of Varosha in... Read More