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WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), today sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Rick Perry expressing their concern and asking for clarifications about the Administration’s approval of multiple licenses for U.S. companies to sell nuclear...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement following this weekend’s first round of presidential elections in Ukraine: “I congratulate the people of Ukraine for a successful election process on Sunday. International election observers...

NEWARK – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement following reports that President Trump ordered the State Department to cut foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador: “If carried out, President Trump’s irresponsible decision to cut off our...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released a report prepared by Democratic staff of the Foreign Relations Committee that calls into question the State Department’s claims that it rescinded the International Women of Courage (IWOC) award from foreign...

  WASHINGTON – In the wake of this month’s terrorist attack in New Zealand, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Gary Peters (D-Mi.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Senate Majority...

  WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced a resolution marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, which killed an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, causing millions to flee the country as refugees. “This April we join with the people of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor today to outline the Trump Administration’s failure to nominate qualified individuals for a number of ambassador posts and senior State Department positions. The Senator’s speech comes in response to...

Washington, D.C. – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.), introduced the Taiwan Assurance Act, legislation that would enhance the U.S.-Taiwan...

WASHINGTON — El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, hoy envió una carta al Secretario de Estado Mike Pompeo, urgiéndole determinar si los gobiernos de Venezuela, Cuba y Nicaragua deben enfrentar sanciones establecidas por la ley para...

  WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to determine if the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua should face mandatory U.S. sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this morning delivered the concluding remarks at the closing plenary session of the 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference. Below are the Senator’s remarks as delivered: “Good morning, and thank you AIPAC! As always, I’m thrilled to...

  NEWARK, N.J. – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding today’s terrorist attack in two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand: “My heart goes out to the families and friends of all those that were so brutally murdered in this act of...

WASHINGTON—Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, yesterday denounced the State Department’s attempts to obstruct investigations into reports of politically-motivated retaliation against career Department...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) formally requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) open a review into the Trump Administration’s negotiations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as well as any...

  WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the opening of a committee hearing this morning titled “a New Approach for an Era of U.S.-China Competition.” “Let me thank Senator Talent and Dr. Mastro for joining us today, and...

WASHINGTON – In response to President Donald Trump’s recent efforts to undermine the prudent use of climate change data and forecasting in national security planning and analysis, Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was joined today by ten other Democrats, including all of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee members, in introducing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.-15), introduced the Journalist Protection Act to make physical attacks and threats of such attacks against journalists a federal crime. Today’s bill introduction comes at the beginning of Sunshine Week, when...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement marking International Women’s Day and recognizing the many women and girls around the world who are being wrongfully imprisoned by their governments. “On International Women’s Day, we reflect...

  WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lead a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues in introducing a bill today to improve the U.S. government’s efforts to bring back Americans held hostage or unlawfully detained abroad. The Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and...

Washington, D.C. – Today, ahead of International Women’s Day, Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Representative Katherine Clark (MA-5), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, Representative Barbara Lee (CA-13), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and leading reproductive health...