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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...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo vehemently opposing the Commerce Department’s apparent plans to consider granting a license to permit the export of rifles – possibly including assault-style or sniper...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in addition to Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), today released the below statement on the second anniversary of the coup in Burma: “Two years since the Burmese military...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Mark Warner (D-Va.), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today issued the below statement in response to the Biden administration’s release of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the below statement following Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s announcement of the launch of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP), a multilateral framework...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and James Lankford (R-Okla.) today were joined by 28 Senate colleagues in reintroducing a bipartisan...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing entitled “Countering Russian Aggression: Ukraine and Beyond.” Testifying before the Committee were Under Secretary of State for Political...

WASHINGTON –  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today were joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in releasing the below statement in reaction to violent anti-government protests across Peru: “While we recognize Peruvians’...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are calling on the Biden administration to guarantee access to adequate healthcare services, including reproductive healthcare and post-sexual assault care, for women employees at the State Department and United...