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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 eight of their democratic Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution condemning consistently high levels of violence against...

WASHINGTON –?U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced a resolution condemning the April 2021 coup d’etat in Chad and urging the country’s transition to democracy. The resolution calls for General Mahamat Deby and transitional authorities’ commitment to organize...

WASHINGTON –?El senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores en el Senado, hoy emitió las siguientes declaraciones en reacción a la decisión de la Administración Biden de extender pero no reasignar a Venezuela para el Estatus de Protección...

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 Biden administration’s decision to extend but not to re-designate Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status: “I commend the Biden administration’s decision to...

WASHINGTON –?U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement following the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo: “I join the people of Japan and the world in mourning the loss of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. A giant in Japanese politics, he was...

WASHINGTON - El senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores en el Senado, lideró hoy un esfuerzo con 21 de sus colegas del Senado para instar a la Administración Biden a que continúe protegiendo a los venezolanos desplazados mediante la extensión y la reasignación de...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led 21 of his Senate colleagues in calling on the Biden administration to continue to protect displaced Venezuelans by extending and re-designating Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). In a new letter to Secretary of State...

WASHINGTON –?U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following virtual address at the Republic of Lithuania’s Centenary Conference in Vilnius, which was convened in celebration of 100 years of diplomatic relations between Lithuania and the United States. Chairman...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement reaffirming...

WASHINGTON –?U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and ?Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement for Pride Month 2022: “As Pride Month 2022 concludes, we not only reaffirm that LGBTQI+ rights are...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the below statement calling on the Sudanese...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today sent a letter to Secretary Blinken expressing...

WASHINGTON – El Senador de los Estados Unidos Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, fue acompañado hoy por sus homólogos de España, Canadá, República Checa, Polonia, Estonia, el Parlamento Europeo, Lituania, Letonia, Italia, Francia, Portugal y el...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement following the Biden administration’s decision to waive section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, which bans most U.S. military assistance to the Government of Azerbaijan until it takes...

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 were joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in unveiling new legislation to reauthorize the Peace Corps for 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, today issued the below statements following the Committee’s approval of their resolution recognizing the Marshall Plan’s role in founding a transatlantic community committed to the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), John Thune (R-S.D.), and SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) ?announced that their bipartisan Senate resolution condemning the use of starvation and hunger as weapons of...

WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores en el Senado, publicó hoy una columna para el periódico mexicano Reforma sobre el impacto de la decisión del Presidente Mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador de perjudicar la relación entre...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today published an op-ed for the leading Mexican newspaper Reforma on the impact of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s decision to strain the U.S.-Mexico relationship by using the Summit of the Americas to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this afternoon’s full Committee hearing: “NATO Enlargement: Examining the Proposed Accession of Sweden and Finland.” Testifying before the Committee were Assistant Secretary of...