WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.)  sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to increase transparency and accountability surrounding the use of the government’s invocation of the state secrets privilege. While the state secrets privilege is meant... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), released the following statement after the Senate passed a short-term extension of the debt ceiling until December 3, 2021:“Senate Democrats have been working in every way possible to preserve the full faith and credit of the United States on behalf of the American people. On the other... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today applauded the Biden-Harris Administration’s proposed overhaul of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, which has long been riddled with confusing and restrictive requirements and plagued by mismanagement issues since its inception in 2007. Some of the proposed... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, urging the Biden-Harris Administration to establish an ambitious national goal to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and to develop... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe and Acting Regional Administrator Walter Mugdan in announcing the finalization of an interim plan to clean up contaminated sediment in the upper nine miles of the Lower... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-NJ) sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration raising concerns over the agency’s proposed changes to the structure of the William J. Hughes Technical Center located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The changes would restructure the current research,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today applauded an announcement by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology that it will hold a hearing on Strengthening Our Communications Networks to Meet the Needs of Consumers. The October 5, 2021 hearing will... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) today announced $3,935,488 in federal funding to support state and local public safety agencies through the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG). The Byrne JAG Program is designed to ensure public safety agencies... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) to register their growing concerns over Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s defiance of basic democratic norms. His repeated challenges to the rule of... 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 make a series of motions for the Senate to confirm ten highly-qualified foreign affairs and development nominees whose confirmations have been blocked by Senate Republicans for months to prevent the Biden... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, today announced new roles for current staffers handling Latino Affairs and Outreach. Beginning this week, Fabiola Pagán Meléndez, based in Washington, D.C., will assume the role of Legislative Assistant for Latino Affairs, overseeing all policy and... Read More

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 to consider the nominations of the Honorable Jack A. Markell to be Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Economic... Read More

  WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concerns regarding the recent findings by an independent investigation that Kristalina Georgieva, former World Bank CEO and current Managing Director of the International... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked the House-passed continuing resolution (H.R.5305) to extend federal government funding until the end of the year and provide emergency assistance for Americans struggling in the aftermath of natural disasters:"Once again,... Read More

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both-D-N.J.) this week joined 46 Democrats in the Senate and 188 in the House of Representatives in filing a bicameral amicus brief in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, urging the Supreme Court to uphold nearly 50 years of precedent in Roe v.... 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 condemn Senate Republicans’ efforts to delay and obstruct dozens of highly-qualified foreign affairs and development nominees whose unwarranted delays in being confirmed pose significant national security threats to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today applauded unanimous passage of their bipartisan Senate resolution designating September 2021 as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. More than 3.1 million men... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in U.S. Congress, released the following statement on the recent treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border:“The inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants at the border is abhorrent and in clear contradiction to the values we strive for as a nation. The cruel... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) joined a group of colleagues in re-introducing the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2021, legislation to address bullying and harassment, including cyberbullying, at colleges and universities around the country. The lawmakers introduced the bill on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today lead a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) to delay its new National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rating system known as Risk Rating 2.0. The new rating system, scheduled to go into effect October 1st,... Read More