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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling on the Trump administration to impose targeted sanctions on five Russian nationals recently indicted by the Justice Department for a series of recent cyberattacks across the world perpetrated to further Russian interests....

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Congresswoman Norma Torres (D-Calif.) today led more than 40 of their Democratic Senate and House colleagues in...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) in leading eight of their Senate colleagues in calling on the Trump administration to impose sanctions on senior commanders of Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), which...

NEWARK – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), repealed the editorial independence firewall rule designed to protect the work of the USAGM’s networks and grantees from...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) yesterday introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate human rights abuses perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China against the Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced a Senate resolution calling on the Government of Tanzania and all parties to ensure free and fair elections ahead of the country’s October 2020 electoral cycle. Since President...

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Bob Casey Jr. (D-Penn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) today introduced two resolutions to require Secretary of State Mike...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by 22 of his Senate Democratic colleagues in opposing the Trump administration’s proposal to cap refugee admissions at 15,000 for Fiscal Year 2021—the lowest ceiling in the history of the U.S. Refugee Admissions...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the Nigerian government's response to peaceful protests calling for an end to police brutality: “I condemn the shooting of innocent civilians in Nigeria, and call for an immediate transparent...

WASHINGTON – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic Staff today published a comprehensive report commissioned by Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) documenting the damage caused by President Trump’s failed foreign policy and his unprecedented assault on America’s exceptionalism on the global stage.  Titled The...

Washington, D.C. — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a Senate resolution condemning the Maduro regime’s ongoing efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections scheduled for this December. The upcoming fraudulent elections will fail to...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today introduced the Secure F-35 Exports Act of 2020, legislation to reassert Congressional oversight over the sale of sophisticated and mission-critical American military systems. The new...

NEWARK – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  issued the following statement following reports of a potential short-term arms control agreement between the United States and Russia:  “If the reports are correct, I welcome the news that the Trump administration has adopted...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will convene a virtual conversation on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 11:30 AM EDT to unveil a new report being published by the SFRC Democratic Staff.  Entitled “The Cost of Trump’s Foreign Policy: Damage and...

NEWARK – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in reaction to reports that the Turkish military has begun testing S-400 air defense systems purchased from Russia:   “Today’s test by Turkey of the Russian-made S-400 air defense...

Expulsión de Venezolanos usando vuelos indirectos pudo violar la ley y la política de los Estados Unidos  Deportaciones subrayan la hipocresía de la administración Trump hacia las víctimas del régimen de Maduro WASHINGTON - El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Miembro de Más Alto Rango del...

Indirect Flights May Have Circumvented U.S. Law and Policy, Deportations Highlight Trump Administration’s Hypocrisy Towards the Victims of the Maduro Regime   WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is demanding that the Trump Administration answer questions about...

“Given that the role of the Library of Congress is to inform Congress and the public, we would submit that the Library has an obligation to describe historical events like the Armenian Genocide in the most historically accurate manner.” WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations...

Senador revela que agentes migratorios de Estados Unidos alquilaron camionetas sin identificación en Guatemala para trasladar a familias migrantes de regreso a la frontera entre Guatemala y Honduras  Menéndez urge a los Inspectores Generales que investiguen al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional por mal uso de fondos del...

Senator reveals U.S. immigration agents rented unmarked vans in Guatemala to haul migrant families back to Guatemala-Honduras border  Ranking Member Menendez calls on Inspectors General to investigate how DHS misused State Department funds, violated a written agreement between the two departments, tried to hide the existence of the operation,...