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WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today delivered remarks on the Senate Floor following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s threatened missile strike on Athens, Greece. Menendez called on the United States and the international community to take concrete steps to hold Erdogan to...

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 sent a new letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen calling for accountability for those undermining institutions and the rule of law in...

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 following joint statement on their meeting in the U.S. Capitol with President Kais Saied of Tunisia: “This week, we met with President Saied to discuss the U.S-Tunisia...

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 after their bipartisan Department of State Authorization Act of 2022 was approved by Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...

WASHINGTON – Los Senadores Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, y Jim Risch (R-Idaho), el Miembro de Más Alto del Comité, hoy fueron acompañados por los Senadores Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Bill...

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 Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in issuing the below statements after their bipartisan...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) were joined today by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in calling on the Biden administration to confront 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 W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, are calling on Senate and House Leadership to meet...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) today applauded the inclusion of provisions from their Iran Nuclear Weapons Capability Monitoring Act of 2022, bipartisan legislation they introduced this summer to establish a State Department...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the release of Brittney Griner: “The news this morning of Brittney Griner’s release is a welcome development toward our collective efforts to secure the return of all those wrongfully detained in...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in applauding Committee passage of their Senate resolution reaffirming the importance of the partnership between the governments of the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, today was joined by Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) in celebrating Committee approval of the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2022. By making prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis around the world a priority in U.S. foreign assistance, the...

WASHINGTON –   Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), were joined today by nine of their Senate colleagues in announcing Committee approval of their Senate resolution reaffirming the United States’ support for the Iranian citizens who have taken to the...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today led the Committee’s passage of his bipartisan resolution honoring the victims of the largest terrorist attacks perpetrated against a country in Latin America: the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish...

WASHINGTON – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement announcing key pillars of his legislation to strengthen the U.S.-Taiwan relationship will be included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY23. Negotiated as a bipartisan amendment to the annual defense legislation,...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  and Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) today were joined by leading international and New Jersey disability rights experts and dozens of advocates for a roundtable discussion in the U.S. Capitol on how to better secure the rights of people with...

WASHINGTON –  The U.S. Senate today approved comprehensive legislation to bolster U.S. efforts to combat human trafficking around the word.  The  International Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act was approved by voice vote after Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) took to the Senate Floor to urge...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at this afternoon’s full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of the Honorable Lynne M. Tracy to be Ambassador to the Russian Federation; the Honorable Julie D. Fisher to be Ambassador to the...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at this afternoon’s full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of the Honorable Lynne M. Tracy to be Ambassador to the Russian Federation; the Honorable Julie D. Fisher to be Ambassador to the...

QATAR – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to the resumption of talks between the Maduro regime and the Venezuelan opposition, and the signing of a humanitarian agreement to be implemented by the United Nations:  “While I am under no...