NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced that Rutgers University was awarded $1,495,212.43 to support their cancer research and prevention study on volunteer firefighters. The study, which is a three-year project funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), aims to prevent cancer in volunteer... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), was joined today by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo following the... Read More

  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 11 of his Senate colleagues in raising serious concerns over escalating violence in the south Caucasus between Azerbaijan – backed by Turkey – and Armenia. In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Mike... Read More

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) are applauding the passage of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act in the House of Representatives today.  The Save Our Seas 2.0 Act was introduced in June 2019 to address the plastic debris crisis threatening coastal... Read More

    Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) introduced the Territory Economic Development Tax Credit Act that would create a tax credit for wages and tangible investments made by businesses in the U.S. territories. “This legislation will incentivize businesses to bring jobs and... Read More

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (N.J.-06) today led a congressional delegation letter to President Trump supporting Governor Phil Murphy’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration, making the state eligible for more federal resources as areas recover from... Read More

  WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), today joined a bipartisan call led by Senate Taiwan Caucus co-chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in support of negotiating a comprehensive, enforceable trade agreement with Taiwan to strengthen American competitiveness and the United States-Taiwan... Read More

  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling on the State Department leadership to preserve efforts to increase workplace diversity and inclusion at the State Department. In a new letter, Menendez pressed Under Secretary of State for Management Brian... Read More

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today joined a group of colleagues to introduce legislation that would establish a new core public health infrastructure program with $4.5 billion in annual funding to bolster the nation’s efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and strengthen its ability to respond to other... Read More

  WASHINGTON - El senador Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, esta tarde hizo una moción en el Senado para aprobar de inmediato un proyecto de ley designando a Venezuela para un Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS, por sus siglas en ingles). Por... Read More

  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, moved on the Senate Floor to immediately pass legislation designating Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). For the fifth time in the last 18 months, Senate Republicans blocked the Venezuela TPS Act of... Read More

  WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Prioritizing Clean Energy and Climate Cooperation with India Act of 2020. The legislation follows a Congressional Delegation to India in the fall of 2019,   during which... Read More

         WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez tonight delivered a blistering speech on the Senate Floor calling President Trump “a liar, a cheat, and a fraud” and said the President’s reported indebtedness makes him a “potential national security liability.”  “The... Read More

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced that the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority was awarded $10,928,520.90 in federal funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make repairs after floods from Superstorm Sandy damaged the electrical distribution... Read More

    NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced $1,570,658.74 in funding for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to replace a building at Port Newark that was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. “Port Newark is essential to our... Read More

  NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced that Cooper University Hospital in Camden has been awarded more than $7.5 million in federal emergency funding from the CARES Act to protect nurses, doctors and frontline health care workers fighting the coronavirus.  “Since the day COVID-19 hit our... Read More

        NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) and Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill (N.J.-11) today gathered outside Newark Federal Court to outline bipartisan, bicameral legislation crafted in response to the fatal, targeted attack on U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas’s New Jersey... Read More

  NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez released the following statement in response to President Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court Justice vacancy left by the passing this week of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg:  “The United States passed another grim milestone... Read More

  NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez released the following statement in response to President Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court Justice vacancy left by the passing this week of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg:  “The United States passed another grim milestone... Read More

    NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today announced Paterson was awarded $3,400,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Lead Based Paint Hazard Reduction funding. The city will work with local medical and social service providers to... Read More