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WASHINGTON – SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power urging their agencies to better institutionalize labor diplomacy and to prioritize labor and worker rights at the second Summit for Democracy, which is...

WASHINGTON – SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today released the below statement in reaction to Vladimir Putin’s State of the Nation address and announced “suspension” of Russian participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), a rigorous post-Cold War nuclear arms control agreement expiring in the...

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 Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) in introducing bipartisan legislation to bolster support for families advocating for the release of their loved ones...

WASHINGTON – SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today delivered the following opening statement as this morning’s full Committee hearing to consider the nomination of the Honorable Richard R. Verma to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. “In recent years, State personnel have encountered a series of mounting and complex...

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 joined in introducing legislation to better protect civilians in the Middle East from Iran’s weaponized unmanned aerial systems. “I am proud to join in introducing this bipartisan...

WASHINGTON – SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today delivered the following opening statement as this morning’s full Committee hearing on illicit fentanyl trafficking. Testifying before the Committee were the Honorable Todd Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement; the Honorable Anne...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) in sounding the alarm on Meta’s failure to...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is urging the Biden administration to demonstrate the United States’ commitment to democracy and human rights worldwide by creating a new limited visa category for human rights defenders facing imminent grave danger and persecution....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in reintroducing the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is urging the Biden administration to bolster its efforts to support and shelter Iranian dissidents and their families against the backdrop of the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on citizens who have been protesting for their rights....

WASHINGTON  – Following a fatal earthquake that has killed thousands of people in Syria and Turkey, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today reintroduced the Syria Detainee and Displaced Persons...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement in reaction to the release of more than 200 political prisoners from unjust detention in Nicaragua: “For two years, hundreds of Nicaraguan political leaders, democratic activists, and human rights...

WASHINGTON – SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today delivered the following opening statement as this morning’s full Committee hearing “Evaluating U.S.-China Policy in the Era of Strategic Competition.” Testifying before the Committee were Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security...

WASHINGTON – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic Staff today published a new report underscoring the urgent need to address chronic underfunding of U.S. diplomacy and development in the Indo-Pacific region. Commissioned by SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the report calls for full resourcing of the Biden administration’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) in re-introducing the End Tuberculosis Now Act, comprehensive bipartisan legislation to make the elimination of tuberculosis (TB) a foreign assistance priority for the United States. By improving U.S....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined in introducing a bipartisan resolution reaffirming the United States’ strong support for democracy and democratic institutions in Nigeria. Unveiled in advance of the country’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement on this morning’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria: “I am deeply saddened and shocked by the devastation this morning’s earthquake wreaked on southeastern Turkey and northwestern...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement in support of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s decision to postpone his planned travel to Beijing in response to the discovery of a surveillance balloon from the People Republic of China in U.S....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, and seven of their Democratic Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution condemning the January 8 siege on Brazil’s Congress,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today wrote a letter calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to address several points of concern during his first official visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In addition to urging Secretary Blinken to demand Beijing...