WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, issued the following statements after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved their bipartisan bill to bolster... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of the United States from the Open Skies Treaty, which violated U.S. law. The Open Skies Treaty is a key part of America’s international arms... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Cindy Hyde Smith (R-Miss.) today introduced bipartisan legislation to eliminate the cost-share payments required of states and communities included in federal disaster declarations in 2020. The bill is cosponsored by Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.). The Local... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the beginning of today’s Foreign Relations Committee business meeting. “Mr. Chairman, I have a two preliminary matters that I would like to address.As an initial matter, I ask for unanimous... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of Memorial Day, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) today introduced bipartisan legislation that would ensure all World War II (WWII) veterans are eligible for health care services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Due to current limitations in the law, there are WWII... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today announced that the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce has endorsed his $500 billion SMART Fund that will provide states, counties and municipalities with the direct federal assistance they need to sustain essential public services the business community and broader economy depend upon. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) joined a group of colleagues in sending letters to JetBlue and Delta expressing concern about the companies' decision to cut the hours of their employees after receiving financial assistance under the under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The senators... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today joined Congressman Andy Kim (N.J.-03) and members of the New Jersey congressional delegation urged the Trump Administration to extend the deployment of the New Jersey National Guard beyond the current June 24th deadline. Currently, more than 1,000 Guardsmen and women from New... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with 19 of his Democratic Senate colleagues, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to raise significant concerns about the objectives of the Department of State’s Commission on Unalienable Rights. Senator Menendez... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) today applauded the announcement that New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients will be able to use their benefits to order groceries online from approved online retailers. This will help protect the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), along with Representative Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.-03), led a bicameral group of almost 100 colleagues in urging U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to fulfill HHS’ commitment to its Healthy People 2020 objectives by... Read More

WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations’ Subcommittee that oversees human rights, today led their Senate colleagues in introducing a bipartisan resolution to commemorate World Press Freedom Day. The... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today lead a bipartisan colloquy on the Senate Floor with cosponsors of his SMART Fund to call on Congress to provide frontline state and local governments robust, flexible funding to help them address rising costs to contain COVID-19 and lost revenues as a result of the pandemic. Sen. Menendez was... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez today stressed the need for bipartisanship in Congress to address the challenges facing the country during the COVID-19 pandemic and deliver much needed assistance to frontline states and communities. He appeared this morning in a joint interview with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on “CNN... Read More

WASHINGTON - Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released a video message congratulating Tsai Ing-wen on her second inauguration as President of Taiwan. “Taiwan’s democracy is one of the world’s great success stories, and the Taiwanese people’s embrace of the rule... Read More

WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was joined by the entire Democratic bench of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in sending a pair of letters today to Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) to reinforce their opposition to his plans to convene a committee business meeting without any major legislation related to fighting COVID-19,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to questioning from U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) during a Senate Banking Committee hearing today Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said he agreed with Menendez that the nation’s economic crisis and ability to recover will be greatly impacted if state and local governments are forced to gut... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today called on the Department of Justice to review whether former Florida Republican Congressman David Rivera violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) in his work for the regime of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced he will introduce new legislation to protect Inspectors General for the State Department and other Foreign Affairs agencies from removal and bolster Congress’s ability to review attempts to remove Inspectors... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) today will formally introduce bipartisan legislation to deliver critical, federal resources to states and communities on the frontlines of the COVID-19 fight. The State and Municipal Assistance for Recovery and Transition (SMART) Act targets $500 billion in... Read More