Bob Menendez

The 9/11 AUMF has served the United States well.

It is a shame that it took the abduction of 300 girls to get them to understand that they should have joined us at the United Nations.

I call on my colleagues in Congress to pass the International Violence Against Women's Act that Senator Boxer and I introduced last week.

I have called on President Jonathan to demonstrate the leadership his nation is demanding.

I believe they do not represent Islam, and, in my view, their actions cannot go unanswered.

We must reaffirm and recommit ourselves to the fundamental rule of law everywhere.

The fact that incidents like this are happening at all in the 21st century should be deeply troubling to every human being.

We are all appalled at the plight of nearly 300 young women abducted in Nigeria by Boko Haram.

Because the promise of the Act--if, at the end of the day, you do everything that is right and you register and apply and qualify but you are just not processed, at the end of the day, that is really unfortunate.

If confirmed, will you commit to prioritizing this issue so families in New Jersey and across the country can rest assured that their Medicaid enrollment has been processed...

I say to my colleague from Texas that we have come to a conclusion based on all of the hearings, all of the testimony, and all of the reports as to what transpired and what we can do to save a life prospectively; therefore, I say to the…

I would say to my colleague from Texas that the consent request for embassy security we passed in committee in a bipartisan effort is much different than a partisan effort to have an investigation that ultimately also is led by a partisan…

Oil sanctions by the U.S. Government would be a reward for the Caracas Government and its Cuban partners.

A U.S. oil embargo on Venezuela or any kind of nationwide economic sanction would instantly be painted as Yankee imperialism.

Free the prisoners now ought to become a rallying cry for all the freedom-loving governments in Latin America.

I strongly oppose this proposal for two reasons.

Failure to do it will be an abdication of U.S. values and principles.

The United States will not stand by an idly watch as the rights of people, with whom we share this hemisphere, are systematically violated by an anti-American government.

The defining issue of current day Venezuela is the wholesale, state-sanctioned and amply documented violation of the human rights of those who oppose the government

The United States should rally other Latin American leaders to condemn human rights violations in Venezuela.

The only additional thing that I will urge you is that when these individuals are sanctioned, it be very clear why.

More should be done to make it apparent to the rest of the world that Venezuela today just impersonates a democracy and is not a democracy.

The future of Venezuela belongs to the people of Venezuela. They must determine the direction of that country and what sort of system of government and economics they want.

Don't fall into the Anti-Imperialist trap.

No sanction imposed by the U.S. can cause more damage or be as politically destabilizing for the Venezuelan government as the sanctions that the Maduro administration and its Cuban handlers are currently imposing on the Venezuelan people.