WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by 19 of his Senate colleagues in urging the Trump Administration to grant emergency refugee protections to Sikh and Hindu communities in Afghanistan facing persecution as religious minorities. In a bipartisan letter addressed to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In recognizing and honoring the 25th anniversary of National HIV Testing Day tomorrow, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) joined a group of Senate colleagues in calling on Senate leadership to include federal funding for HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and housing programs in the next COVID-19 pandemic... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of the five-year anniversary of the funeral service for the victims of the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today joined a group of Senate colleagues in introducing the Background Check Completion Act. This legislation would close a current loophole... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, along with 34 Democratic colleagues, introduced legislation requiring the Pentagon to remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America from all military bases and other assets of the Department of Defense... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch (FL-22) and Max Rose (NY-11) introduced the Countering Global White Supremacist Terrorism Act, bicameral legislation to strengthen the U.S. government’s counter-terrorism efforts against... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is raising serious concerns about the Trump Administration’s expenditure of more than $200 million in taxpayer dollars to donate ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic to countries President Donald Trump personally selected. In an... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced the awarding of $15,014,758 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support the New Jersey Department of Health’s (DOH) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Cooperative Agreement, which will help the state continue to respond to... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling for the Trump Administration to immediately confirm or clarify former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s claims that President Trump explicitly endorsed the Chinese governments’ repressive system of surveillance... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today led the delegation’s opposition to a new proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that would effectively slash over $100... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy M.D. (R-La.) today called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to thoroughly investigate a recent whistleblower complaint alleging Facebook is aware of, and failing to police, illegal activities on its platforms, including the selling of counterfeit drugs. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced the awarding of a combined $84 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to New Jersey’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to provide low-cost financing and loan forgiveness for a wide range of water... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, along with U.S. Congressmen Albio Sires (N.J.-08), Donald Payne, Jr. (N.J.-10), Tom Malinowski (N.J.-07), all members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced NJ Transit was awarded $13,321,545 from the Federal Transportation Agency (FTA) to ensure... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) spoke today on the Senate Floor, urging Congress to pass meaningful, comprehensive policing reform legislation that answers the American people’s demand for action in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police. The senator blasted the GOP’s so-called... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today requested the State Department’s Acting Inspector General Stephen Akard open a review to determine whether Michael Pack, the newly-installed CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), violated a federal regulation when he... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is calling for a full accounting of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s role in President Trump’s repeated efforts to manipulate our nation’s foreign policy to further his own interests above that of our national... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was joined by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Mark Warner (D-Va.) in sending a strong rebuke to the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced $169,200 in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development grants and loans to support firefighters and first responders in Cape May and Ocean counties. “New Jersey’s firefighters and first responders put their lives on the lines every single day... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following last week’s historic Supreme Court ruling rejecting President Donald Trump’s repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) joined the entire Senate Democratic Caucus in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today announced that the New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) has endorsed his bipartisan bill that will provide much needed economic relief to states and municipalities to ensure they can continue providing the public services that businesses across the state rely on. As state... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the Senate’s transit subcommittee that oversees the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Capital Investment Grants (CIG) program, and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), along with U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09), Albio Sires (N.J.-08), Donald Payne,... Read More