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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the United States’ new Indo-Pacific strategy: “Even as we work with our allies and partners to face critical challenges around the world, the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a Senate resolution in support of providing a new diplomatic approach to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions and avoiding a destabilizing arms race in the Middle East. The bipartisan resolution...

WASHINGTON – At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to consider the nomination of renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt to be Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today defended his and the Holocaust historian’s denunciations of Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) previous...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Ms. Randi Charno Levine to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the...

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Western Hemisphere Security Strategy Act of 2022. This bill seeks to enhance U.S. engagement with the region at a time when the destabilizing impact of authoritarian regimes, and...

WASHINGTON - Los Senadores Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.) y Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Presidente y Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores en el Senado, hoy fueron acompañados por los Senadores Tim Kaine (D-Va.) y Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Presidente y Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Subcomité del...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today in introducing the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement as the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics begin: “Today, as the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics commence, I urge the global community to join in a moment of silence in recognition of all of those...

WASHINGTON — Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced the Taiwan Representative Office Act (S. 3573), a bipartisan and bicameral bill that would direct the U.S. Secretary of State to enter into negotiations to rename the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Hallie Jackson on MSNBC to discuss progress in bipartisan negotiations for a comprehensive sanctions package to deter the Kremlin from re-invading Ukraine and other foreign policy news of the day. On status of negotiations with...

WASHINGTON – En una carta al Secretario de Estado Antony Blinken y la Secretaria del Tesoro Janet Yellen, el Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores en el Senado, formalmente solicitó que la Administración Biden revoque inmediatamente la visa de Juan Orlando...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen formally requesting that the Biden administration immediately revoke outgoing Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s visa and sanction him as a...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen formally requesting that the Biden administration immediately revoke outgoing Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s visa and sanction him as a...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) last night spoke on the Senate Floor in advance of votes to invoke cloture on and in support of the nominations of Dr. Amy Gutmann to be US Ambassador to Germany; Mr. Scott Nathan to be Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J) today was joined by Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Representatives Don Young (R-Alaska) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) on a letter to Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today took to the Senate Floor to deliver remarks to lay out his growing concerns with the Biden administration’s latest round of negotiations over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) while Iran continues to rapidly escalate...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement joining the international backlash in response to a report issued by Amnesty International in which it accuses the state of Israel of the crime of apartheid: “I am deeply disturbed by Amnesty...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing entitled “Sudan's Imperiled Transition: U.S. Policy in the Wake of the October 25th Coup.” Testifying before the Committee were Assistant...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in advance of the first anniversary of the coup in Burma on February 1: “Tomorrow marks one year since the Tatmadaw carried out a violent military coup...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined join Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning newsmaker show to discuss Kremlin aggression against Ukraine and the latest on his effort for Congress to pass comprehensive,...