WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today unveiled the United States-Colombia Strategic Alliance Act of 2022, a new legislative initiative that lays out...
WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, y el Senador Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Presidente del Subcomité sobre el Hemisferio Occidental, hoy presentaron el Proyecto de Ley para la Alianza Estratégica entre Estados Unidos y Colombia de 2022, una nueva...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a series of oversight letters to five regional Assistant Secretaries of State to request specific details about the State Department’s diplomatic strategies to counter Russian influence and aggression, including how they are...
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 entitled “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Assessing the U.S. and International Response.” Testifying before the Committee was the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led seven of their Senate colleagues in writing a letter to President Joe Biden calling for democracy, good governance, and human rights to be top...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in observance of International Women’s Day:
“This International Women’s Day, the immense strength, resilience, and heroism of women and girls are on full display. Taking up arms to...
WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, emitió las siguientes declaraciones en respuesta a informes indicando que una delegación de altos funcionarios de la Administración Biden se reunió con el régimen de Maduro para discutir la...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that a delegation of senior Biden administration officials met with the Maduro regime to discuss the release of arbitrarily imprisoned Americans and the potential purchase of Venezuelan...
NEW JERSEY – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is calling on the Biden administration to take whatever steps it deems necessary to expedite and support the immediate transfer of fighter aircraft from NATO and Eastern European countries to the government of Ukraine. The request...
WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, emitió las siguientes declaraciones después de que el Secretario de Seguridad Nacional, Alejandro Mayorkas, anunciara que la Administración Biden otorgará un estatus de protección temporal...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the Biden administration will provide Temporary Protected Status to Ukrainians in the United States:
“After a week of Vladimir Putin’s...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in unveiling the Internet Freedom and Operations (INFO) Act of 2022, new bipartisan legislation to bolster the U.S. government’s ability to combat authoritarian and repressive...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the three lead sponsors of the enacted Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act, issued the following joint statement on the United Nations Environment Assembly’s...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is calling on the Biden administration to bolster and ratchet up its unprecedented pressure campaign to hold Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his lackey Aleksandr Lukashenko in Belarus, accountable for Putin’s unprovoked,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement following the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) publication of a new report that found that the State Department failed to comply with reporting requirements for...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus; and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado de EEUU, emitió las siguientes declaraciones en reacción al anuncio de los líderes de Estados Unidos, la Comisión Europea, Francia, Alemania, Italia, el Reino Unido y Canadá de una nueva...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to an announcement by the leaders of the United States, European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, UK, and Canada of a new round of sanctions to hold Putin to account for his illegitimate war...
WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado de EEUU, emitió las siguientes declaraciones después que el Presidente Biden anunciara esta tarde una nueva ronda de sanciones contra Rusia por la guerra ilegal e ilegítima de Putin en...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Biden’s announcement this afternoon of a new round of sanctions in response to Putin’s illegal and illegitimate war against Ukraine:
“I welcome the President’s...