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WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today issued the following statement in observance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The Senator also announced he will soon introduce new legislation to build the capacity of local organizations of people with disabilities (OPDs) around...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the below opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Mr. Scott Nathan to be Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation; the...

WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, hoy realizó la siguientes declaraciones durante la audiencia del Comité sobre la política de Estados Unidos en relación a la democracia en América Latina y el Caribe. Testificando hoy ante...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the below opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing on United States policy on democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Testifying before the Committee were the Honorable Brian A. Nichols, Assistant...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today questioned witnesses at this morning’s Western Hemisphere Subcommittee hearing entitled “Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Importance of U.S. Engagement.” “The pandemic exposed many of the region’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full Committee hearing entitled “Afghanistan 2001-2021: U.S. Policy Lessons Learned.” Testifying before the Committee were Ms. Laurel E. Miller, Director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group, and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after the White House submitted the 2016 Kigali Amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol for the Senate’s Advice and Consent to U.S. accession. The Kigali Amendment is a global agreement 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, 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 following joint statement to condemn...

JERSEY CITY, NJ – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement condemning the Lukashenka regime’s politically-motivated trafficking of thousands of migrants at the Eastern borders of the EU and NATO: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today was joined by seven of his Senate colleagues in writing a letter to President Joe Biden in advance of the upcoming December Summit for Democracy calling for clarity and transparency regarding the criteria used to determine which countries were...

WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined today by Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in writing to Vice President Kamala Harris in advance of her upcoming travel to the Paris Peace Forum to express...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today led Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) in releasing the...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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 T. McCaul (R-Texas), Chair and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement following...

WASHINGTON – El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores, hoy fue acompañado por sus homólogos de los Comités de Relaciones Exteriores en el Reino Unido, Lituania, Parlamento Europeo, España, Estonia, Letonia, la Republica Checa, Colombia, Costa Rica, Suecia,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by his Foreign Affairs Committee counterparts from the United Kingdom, Lithuania, European Parliament, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Czechia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Sweden, Ireland, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, and Ecuador in issuing 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, yesterday introduced their International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act (S. 2297) as an amendment to the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bipartisan...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) were joined today by State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) in marking one year since the beginning of the conflict in Ethiopia with the introduction of their Ethiopia...

WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced two of the foreign policy amendments he is filing to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). As the primary vehicle for authorizing defense spending for Fiscal Year 2022, Chairman Menendez’s proposed changes to the NDAA...

WASHINGTON – Los Senadores Bob Menéndez (D-N.J), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, y Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Subcomité sobre el Hemisferio Occidental, y los Congresistas Albio Sires (D-N.J.-08), Presidente del Subcomité sobre el Hemisferio en la...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.),  SFRC Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Ranking Member Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Albio Sires (D-NJ-08), and Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27), were joined today by a...