WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest ranking Latino in Congress, penned an op-ed published in Newsweek addressing racial inequalities in America made evident by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the piece, Sen. Menendez also calls for long lasting reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance committee that sets national health policy, and Cory Booker today announced $280,127,442 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support safety- net hospitals across New Jersey. The senators secured this special... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, along with several Democratic colleagues, today wrote Trump Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue regarding their concerns about the disproportionate impact the lack of access to healthy, affordable food is having on low-income communities and communities of color during the... Read More

Washington—Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Oversight... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, today grilled Trump Administration Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia on the failure of the Administration to address the impending unemployment and economic crises facing working families as federal unemployment benefits provided in the CARES Act near... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In their continued efforts to support local journalism, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today joined their colleagues in urging Senate leadership to include federal assistance for digital-native news outlets in future COVID-19 response bills. Along with vital local radio, television and print media, throughout... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today slammed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for formally detaining Mr. Malachy McAllister for deportation. Mr. McAllister is a New Jersey resident and respected Irish community leader who escaped an assassination attempt in his native country and has lived peacefully in the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development, along with U.S. Representatives Juan Vargas (D-Calif.-51) and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.-31), led a bicameral group of colleagues in requesting the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today led a bipartisan group of senators in requesting that the Administration act swiftly to distribute emergency funding allocated in COVID-19 spending packages to hospitals that overwhelmingly serve Medicaid and low-income patients. Without adequate... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by a group of leading Democratic Senators in condemning the Trump Administration’s demand for the United Nations to remove all references to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) from the Global Humanitarian Response Plan... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, today released the following statement after joining Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as a cosponsor of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020: “George Floyd’s senseless and tragic death at the hands of police has helped... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote to Senate leadership about the information they received as part of their inquiry into mortgage servicers' practices during the current crisis. As a result, they are urging leaders to include additional... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by a group of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General World Health Organization (WHO), to advance a productive relationship between the U.S. and the WHO... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bob Casey (D-Penn.), and Congressmen Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) and Jimmy Panetta (Calif.-20) today pushed the Trump Administration for greater federal resources and guidance to support nursing homes and long-term care (LTC) facilities throughout the country as they combat the COVID-19... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today announced the awarding of $11,816,087 to the State of New Jersey in Byrne-JAG funding from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to support the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will allow the state to... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today sent a pair of letters condemning the State Department’s decision to provide thousands of pages of documents to Republicans in response to inquiries seeking to smear President Trump’s political rivals while ignoring... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,today spoke on the Senate Floor in opposition to the nomination of Michael Pack to be CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Speaking ahead of the confirmation vote, Menendez laid out in detail his serious and outstanding concerns regarding... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led a bipartisan group of Senate Foreign Relations Committee members in recognizing the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Senators Menendez and Risch were joined by Senators Marco... Read More

Washington—Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Representative Joaquin Castro, Chairman of the Foreign... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today led a group of colleagues in introducing a bill that would help put more money in the pockets of hardworking low-and moderate-income American families living in Puerto Rico. Similar legislation was included in the Heroes Act (H.R. 6800) that passed the House of Representatives last... Read More