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Bob Menendez

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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.

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Dec 9, 2020

pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, I move to discharge the Foreign Relations Committee from further consideration of S.J. Res. 77, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military…

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Dec 9, 2020

I am not opposed to these sales if they make sense and pose no threat to U.S. or Israel security in the short and the long term. But these sales require and deserve careful and deliberate consideration within the interagency process and by…

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Dec 9, 2020

I rise today to urge my colleagues to support these two resolutions of disapproval. I appreciate my distinguished colleague from Kentucky and his support and advocacy here in these particular arms sales to the United Arab Emirates. Simply…

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Dec 9, 2020

today I am asking our colleagues to stand up for two very important principles. One is the congressional oversight over arms sales abroad and, secondly, to ensure that these sales, in fact, promote and protect the long-term national…

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Dec 7, 2020

today on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, veterans and their families will participate in remembrance events at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. The attack on December 7, 1941, killed 2,403 and injured 1,178. This date of infamy as…

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Nov 18, 2020

I rise today to call upon the administration to take urgent diplomatic action to address the escalating conflict in Ethiopia, a country in the midst of what many in the international community, including myself, had hoped would be a…

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Nov 17, 2020

I come to the floor today in solidarity with ethnic Armenians all over the world who have experienced terrible losses in recent weeks. This is a tragic moment for Armenians everywhere. Words cannot describe the devastation inflicted on the…

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Oct 25, 2020

I rise to speak in opposition to the confirmation of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court. We should not be holding this vote. We are in the eleventh hour of a Presidential election, and 56 million Americans have already voted. The American…

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Oct 19, 2020

today, I rise to urge my colleagues to take a stand for civil rights and basic financial fairness and join us in defense of the Community Reinvestment Act. I appreciate my distinguished colleagues from Delaware and the ranking Democrat on…

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Sep 29, 2020

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Boozman). Without objection, it is so ordered. Trump Tax Returns

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Sep 29, 2020

I won't stay the whole night debating my colleague, although I would enjoy that. But let me just say, No. 1, he has the power, as a colleague in the majority, to go to the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and say: I really think…

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Sep 29, 2020

I appreciate the comments of my colleague from Florida. Let me just say, first, that we don't even need legislation for Venezuelans to get TPS. Let's not lose sight of that. President Trump, with a stroke of his pen, could give temporary…

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