We must advance new initiatives to ensure the integrity of elections in the Americas.
Bob Menendez
The Public Record
Robert Menendez is a prominent Democratic politician currently serving as a member of the United States Senate, representing New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2006 and has since been re-elected multiple times. Menendez has played a significant role in various policy areas, including foreign relations, immigration reform, and healthcare. He has served on several Senate committees, including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has been an advocate for human rights and democracy abroad.
the United States has to continue to fervently advocate for democracy promotion in the world and in our Hemisphere.
Dictatorships, they collapse under pressure. They never collapse if they do not--if you do not put pressure on them.
Tomorrow, I will lead new bipartisan legislation, the RENACER Act, in the Senate that will send a clear signal about the Ortega regime's corrupt and human rights violations.
If we want the OAS to be strong... the U.S. should be defaulting toward trying to support the OAS.
the U.S. has no interest in permitting free trade arrangements to bolster the security apparatuses of authoritarian regimes accused of committing crimes against humanity.
the peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy, and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.
We want the OAS to be strong and be willing to call out problems throughout the region.
I love pieces of legislation that use some of the best tools of free societies to help other free societies.
New Jersey has lost $4.5 billion in home value since 2005, a time period covering Sandy, because of flooding related to sea level rises.





