WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at this morning’s full Committee hearing on the nomination of Ambassador Samantha Power to serve as Administrator to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Power... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today joined his Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate in condemning racism and violence against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the nation. The senator recognizes the invaluable contributions of more than two million AAPIs... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today responded to a new report by the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), which examines how people of color have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in part because they are more likely to work frontline and essential jobs, and yet are less likely to have access to... Read More

HOBOKEN, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez joined Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla today to highlight a new  $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund that was included in the American Rescue Plan (ARP), signed into law last week, to help struggling restaurants and bars that have been economically impacted by the pandemic. These establishments... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led 37 of his Senate colleagues in requesting the Biden administration join the U.S. Congress in officially recognizing the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people. To date, no U.S. president has made it U.S.... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – As the United States enters its second year in the fight to protect and save American lives from COVID-19, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced the bipartisan Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2021 to significantly increase Medicare-supported doctor training slots to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, alongside U.S. Representatives Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), introduced the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021, bicameral and bipartisan legislation that would empower Puerto Ricans with... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are calling on the Biden administration to further engage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over its treatment of farmers in India who have been peacefully demonstrating against the passage of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Banking and Finance Committees, Banking Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today slammed Senate Republicans for blocking their legislation to protect relief checks provided in President Biden’s... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee and chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the insurance industry, today announced the introduction of bipartisan legislation that ensures legal marijuana and related businesses have access to comprehensive and affordable insurance... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker yesterday joined a group of their Democratic Senate colleagues in introducing S.1, the For the People Act, a sweeping package of comprehensive reforms that would end special interest corruption of our politics and make government work for the people. The introduction comes as Republican... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), co-chairmen of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, today introduced bipartisan legislation to direct the State Department to develop a strategy to assist Taiwan in obtaining observer status at the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the World Health Organization,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) slammed the former administration’s response to the pandemic and their failure to provide support to the country’s nursing homes as they scrambled to care for their residents. Sen. Menendez, a senior member of the committee that oversees national... Read More

Washington, D.C.— U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), senior member of both the Senate Banking and Finance Committees, today introduced legislation along with Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), to protect the stimulus checks provided in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan from... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), today took to the Senate Floor to discuss the publication of a report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) which confirmed the Russian Federation favored Donald Trump’s re-election and sought to influence the outcome of the 2020... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote to Secretary of Defense Austin Wednesday ahead of his trip to India. In his letter, Chairman Menendez asked the secretary to specifically raise democracy and human rights concerns in his discussions with the Indian government as well... Read More

Washington, D.C. –– Today, U.S. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Angus King (I-Maine) urged President Joe Biden to rescind former-President Donald Trump’s ban on seasonal, employer-sponsored, and cultural exchange visas under Proclamation 10052.In June 2020, Trump instituted... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and Cory Booker introduced the Lori Jackson Domestic Violence Survivor Protection Act to help protect survivors of domestic abuse by closing the loopholes in current law that allow abusers to legally obtain weapons. The bill is named in memory of Lori Jackson, an Oxford, Connecticut mother of two who... 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 on advancing effective United States policy for strategic competition with China in the twenty-first century. Testifying before the Committee... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) in leading 13 of their Senate colleagues in unveiling a bipartisan resolution in support of the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, or the Belfast Agreement, and subsequent agreements... Read More