BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after two explosions on...
NEWARK – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent actions to leverage the work of the State Department to obstruct transparency, escape accountability, and advance the personal and electoral agenda of...
WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Prime Minister al-Kadhimi of Iraq ahead of his official visit to the United States later this week. The senators express their continued support for a robust partnership...
NEWARK – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in observance of World Humanitarian Day:
“Today, on World Humanitarian Day, I recognize and honor humanitarian workers who courageously provide life-saving aid and protection to millions of people whose...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), sent a letter to Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Michael Kozak urging the Trump Administration to use all available diplomatic tools to underscore the importance of an...
WASHINGTON — El Senador Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), Miembro de Más Alto Rango de el Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, y los Senadores Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) y Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Presidente y Miembro de Más Alto Rango del Subcomité del Hemisferio Occidental, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), y Tim Kaine (D-Va.)...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) today introduced the Advancing...
WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in advance of his meeting with the...
WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today were joined by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in introducing a Senate...
NEWARK— U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement condemning the widespread irregularities surrounding Sunday’s elections in Belarus:
“Alexander Lukashenka is living up to his reputation as the last dictator in Europe....
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Jack Reed (D-R.I.) in raising serious concerns over foreign actors’ continued efforts to influence the...
Washington— Senator Robert Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, today announced subpoenas for depositions of key witnesses in the...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today introduced the Ukraine Security Partnership Act to provide security assistance and...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), co-chairs of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, released the following statement today on the passing of Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first democratically elected president:
“We join the people of Taiwan in mourning the passing of Lee Teng-hui, and offer our...
WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s Foreign Relations Committee hearing entitled “Review of the FY2021 State Department Budget Request.” Testifying at today’s...
Washington—El senador Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), miembro de Más Alto Rango del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, presentó hoy las siguientes declaraciones para el registro del Senado en apoyo a Mauricio Claver-Carone, quien está nominado para servir como el próximo presidente del Banco Interamericano...
WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today submitted the following statement for the Senate record in support for Mauricio Claver-Carone to serve as the next president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
“M. President, I rise to speak about the campaign...
WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the beginning of today’s Foreign Relations Committee business meeting.
“We are here because Secretary Pompeo pressured to move certain nominees over our objection — objections...
WASHINGTON – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic Staff today published a new report documenting the Trump administration’s decimation of the State Department. Commissioned by Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the report is a comprehensive examination of the Trump administration’s assault on U.S....
WASHINGTON – Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is convening a Congressional briefing on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 2:30 PM EDT to unveil a new report being published by the SFRC Democratic Staff. Commissioned by Ranking Member Menendez, the report, entitled “Diplomacy in...