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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to ensure Meta’s platforms are not amplifying Russian election disinformation and misinformation, as Slovakia prepares to hold parliamentary elections at the end of the month. “I am...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate floor on the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh, calling on the United States and the international community to respond and hold President Aliyev and his regime accountable for their actions in...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement marking the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup d’état in Chile. “Today marks the 50th anniversary of the coup against the democratically elected Chilean President, Salvador Allende, and the start of one of the most...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent letters to the CEOs of Baker Hughes, SLB, and Halliburton – three American oilfield service companies – after the Associated Press reported that they were among U.S. companies that exported more than $200 million worth of items to Russia...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement following the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report critical of the Department of Defense’s “333” security assistance projects, titled “Building Partner Capacity: DoD and State Should Strengthen...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee’s hearing, “AUKUS: A Generational Opportunity to Deepen Our Security Partnerships With Australia and The United Kingdom.” The witnesses for the hearing were the Honorable Jessica Lewis,...

WASHINGTON – This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will convene for one full Committee hearing focused on our Australia, United Kingdom, and United States (AUKUS) partnership and one Subcommittee hearing on the budget priorities for the Western Hemisphere during FY24. For all hearings, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will follow...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), and U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) today led a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concerns about ongoing efforts to undermine...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement on the recent military coup in Gabon. “I am deeply concerned about the military coup in Gabon and the sham election that preceded. The Gabonese people deserve the right to participate in a genuine democratic process that...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement hailing the Biden Administration’s historic decision to provide Taiwan with Foreign Military Financing (FMF). “I applaud the Biden Administration’s decision to formally notify Congress of its intent to provide Taiwan with...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released this statement in support of Ukraine on the country’s 32nd anniversary of its independence. “Nearly a year and a half into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and almost a decade since President Putin’s forces began their brutal...

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, along with Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) expelled Taiwan...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement after Turkish Cypriot security forces attacked UN Peacekeepers in Pyla. “I strongly condemn the attacks on UN peacekeeping forces and their property in Pyla. Attacking UN personnel is unacceptable and criminal under...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released this statement after the Nicaraguan government seized the prestigious University of Central America in Nicaragua (UCA), in its latest act against the Catholic Church and democratic norms. “I am deeply disturbed by the Ortega regime’s...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) sent a letter to United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield urging her to introduce a resolution calling for an immediate end to Azerbaijan’s eight-month...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to the President of the Kyrgyz Republic regarding allegations that Kyrgyzstan has assisted Russia, or its proxies, in evading international sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine....

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced landmark legislation to help bolster U.S. investment into Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and boost Eastern European energy security in the wake of Russia’s illegal and unprovoked...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced he will be introducing the Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development (VERDAD) Expansion Act after the August recess. The comprehensive legislation – which is an extensive legislative update to the VERDAD Act...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement after the U.S. Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 this week with a provision he authored to bolster U.S. support for children with disabilities and strengthen the ability of disability...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Agency for international Development Administrator Samantha Power urging them to focus attention on Ukrainian children Russia has abducted during their...