WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Chair Tim Kaine (D-Va. ) met virtually with Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidó to discuss the ongoing political stalemate in Venezuela and...
WASHINGTON – Los Senadores Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores en el Senado, y Jim Risch, Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Comité, hoy fueron acompañados por los Senadores Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) y Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) en presentar un nuevo...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and SFRC Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), were joined today by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in introducing new legislation authorizing the United States’ endorsement of and work to secure...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing on the state of the State Department and State Department authorization. Testifying before the Committee was the Honorable Brian McKeon, Deputy...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), co-chairmen of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, today issued the following statement in observance of the 50th anniversary of the United Nation’s approval of Resolution 2758, which granted the People’s Republic of China...
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 Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following joint statement on the...
JERSEY CITY, NJ – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the attempted military coup in Sudan:
“I condemn in the strongest terms General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s dissolution of Sudan’s Sovereign Council and the transitional government,...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of the East Asia Subcommittee on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the East Asia Subcommittee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today led 48 of their Senate colleagues in writing a bipartisan letter requesting President Joe Biden to receive His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew next week in a manner befitting the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks before the second panel at this afternoon’s full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of the Honorable Rahm Emanuel to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks before the first panel at this morning’s full Committee hearing to consider the nomination of the Honorable R. Nicholas Burns to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), today was joined by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in demanding answers from United States electronics firm Universal Electronic Inc. following an explosive report by Reuters which uncovered the company’s probable implication in the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the Committee voted to approve 33 State Department, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and other critical foreign policy nominations. The nominations move favorably to...
JERSEY CITY, NJ – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the passing of Colin L. Powell:
“I am deeply saddened to hear of the loss of Colin Powell. One of our generation's most respected military minds and national security leaders, Secretary Powell was a...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), senior Committee member Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) led a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the immediate appointment of a senior-level official to lead efforts on anomalous health incidents following...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed into law the Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks (HAVANA Act), legislation co-authored by Menendez authorizing the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was joined today by 15 of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to express their disappointment over the United States’ inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants at...
WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), co-chairmen of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, today sent a letter to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to extend their congratulations in advance of Taiwan’s upcoming 110th National Day (October 10). In addition to joining the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Ms. Lisa A. Carty to be Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United...
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to take immediate action to increase staffing at the U.S....