Bob Menendez

I rise to express my strong support for Maria Contreras-Sweet--a woman eminently qualified to serve our country as the next administrator of the Small Business Administration. Maria Contreras-Sweet is the right person to lead the SBA given…

I come to the floor as we are at a moment of truth and a moment of incredible importance, and I wish to start off by acknowledging the distinguished Republican ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Corker, for…

We need to be looking at subsidies.

Getting reliable electricity access to the poorest and most underserved areas will require special effort.

We believe African entrepreneurs are a key part of successfully addressing energy poverty.

I rise to express my robust concern about Russia's actions and the continuing escalation of tensions in Central and Eastern Europe. Even with Ukrainian troops leaving Crimea, Russia continues to extort Ukraine, disavowing an agreement on…

We continue to believe that the Assad regime is a magnet for terrorism and that the best, most durable resolution to the conflict is a mutually agreed-upon political transition.

Thank you for holding the hearing 'Syria after Geneva: Next Steps for U.S. Foreign Policy.'

Our goals remain to: (1) counter violent extremism and prevent the establishment of a terrorist safe-haven in Syria; (2) avoid the collapse of the Syrian state and its institutions; (3) prevent the transfer or use of chemical weapons (CW)…

At the moment, there is clearly a stalemate at the political level.

We continue to encourage the moderate opposition, both political and armed, to be more unified, to coordinate more effectively, and to build better connections with civilian Syrian populations.

With the Church across the globe, we solemnly mark the third anniversary of the beginning of this war and call for a renewed diplomatic effort to end the horrific bloodshed.

One in 12 American households is unbanked, meaning they do not have a checking or savings account.

I think this is an incredibly important hearing.

I return to the floor because I can't let some of what has been said go unchallenged. First of all, as it relates to the majority leader, the issue of the connection that has been made between IMF reform and the C-4 investigation--the…

I rise to urge a ``yes'' vote for final passage of the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, the legislation we are here to consider. I will say the Senate went through a considerate, deliberate process where amendments were openly…

I wish to pay tribute to the Girl Scouts as the organization celebrates Girl Scout Day. One hundred and two years ago, on March 12, 1912, Juliette ``Daisy'' Gordon Low founded the first chapter of the Girl Scouts of the United States of…

The climate is warming, without a doubt.

We control our destiny, not China or India or Brazil or Russia; no one does but us!

I think we are at such a crossroads.

The Keystone XL pipeline is integral to U.S. and North American energy security.

If we want to gain an important measure of national energy security, jobs, tax revenue, and prosperity to advance our work on the spectrum of energy solutions that don't rely on carbon, it should be approved.

If we want to make Mr. Putin's day and strengthen his hand, we should reject the Keystone.

The difference between Mr. Putin and us, however, is that he wields energy as a weapon to achieve his geostrategic goals, while we look to energy flow in free markets as a means of promoting international peace, prosperity, and economic…

Less than a week ago, four NATO allies from the eastern part of Europe--Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic--appealed to the Congress of the United States to protect them from Russian domination, not by requesting troops or…