WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to include their bipartisan Child Tax Credit Equity for Puerto Rico Act (S. 698) in the next stimulus package. Nearly 60 percent of children in Puerto Rico live... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the highest ranking Latino in Congress, today expressed support for the peaceful demonstrations across the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, and called on Congress to take concrete action to end the systemic racism, injustice and inequality that continues to plague the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, along with Congressman Albio Sires (N.J.-08) and Donald Payne, Jr. (N.J.-10) today announced NJ Transit (NJT) was awarded $7,074,310 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to purchase up to eight, zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, and to build... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced two bills aimed at presenting coherent strategies to preserve and build upon the arms control frameworks that constrain Russia’s strategic nuclear forces, and develop a strategic arms control agenda with China around its... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) blasted Facebook for its continued failure to fact-check posts by politicians. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sen. Menendez expressed concerns for potential harmful or false content that often distorts our political conversations, especially during a presidential election... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.)today released the following statement calling on the Trump Administration to support the 9/11 survivors and family members in their pursuit of justice: “We stand with the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced that health care service providers across New Jersey have been awarded a combined $3.25 million in federal funding through the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program to expand telehealth services throughout the state during the pandemic.... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced a combined total of $11,733,337, which will help support New Jersey’s health care providers and their response to the COVID-19 public health crisis. Over $8.6 million was awarded to five federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and $3 million was awarded to the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill (N.J.-11) penned the following op-ed published in today’s Newark Star-Ledger and Trenton Times, and on nj.com. They are the chief Senate and House sponsors of the bipartisan State and Municipal Assistance for Recovery and Transition (SMART) Act that would... Read More

NEWARK – In an Op-Ed for CNN, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today confirmed the Trump Administration is actively pursuing a new multi-million dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The proposed deal follows new reports that ousted State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – In response to reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has refused to remove the gravestones of WWII German military personnel emblazoned with Nazi symbols and references honoring Hitler from at least two cemeteries maintained by the National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez called on VA Secretary... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced that the New Jersey Department of Health has been awarded $2,685,806 in federal funding through the National Hospital Preparedness Program to support hospitals throughout the state combatting COVID-19 outbreak. New Jersey has the second most positive cases in the... Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, along with Congressmen Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09), Albio Sires (N.J.-08), Donald M. Payne, Jr. (N.J.-10) and Tom Malinowski (N.J.-07) today announced over $91.5 million in funding from the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to advance replacement of the Portal Bridge and make... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today led a group of colleagues in a letter to Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Counsel Scott Gast, to request that former GlaxoSmithKline vaccine executive Dr. Moncef Slaoui – recently appointed by President Trump to serve as... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee that sets national health policy, and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a group of 30 of their colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Health... Read More

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) tonight is releasing a video of the entire Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meeting that took place earlier today. The footage, which was taken by Menendez’s team, comes after Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) unilaterally prevented the press and public from viewing the... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in approving a bipartisan resolution to commend the State Department professionals for their dedication repatriating United States citizens and legal... Read More

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J) issued the following statement after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his Resolution (S.Res.406) recognizing the decades of cooperation between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and its ten members, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) joined a group of colleagues in sending a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger requesting information from the agency regarding its examinations of the companies that service federally-held student loans. The senators made clear that the CFPB must... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today applauded the approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of S. Res.454, a resolution calling for the... Read More