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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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Mar 30, 2017

I come to the floor today, just as I have many times before, to stop another rightwing attack on title X funding and to defend access to healthcare for millions of women. Not even a week has passed since the American people successfully…

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Mar 28, 2017

I just want to make one observation. We got something that is impossible these days to get in the United States Senate on controversial issues, 68 votes for a comprehensive immigration reform.

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Mar 28, 2017

So shared responsibility should be a mutual goal I would think.

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Mar 28, 2017

There is an extraordinary level of collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico to address terror threats.

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Mar 28, 2017

The best way to deal with transnational threats... is together.

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Mar 28, 2017

I think that violence in Central America, the gangs, the narcotraffickers. If at the end of the day your choice is to stay and die or flee and possibly live, even if you are caught, you are going to make that choice.

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Mar 28, 2017

I have never seen the relationship in such bad shape as it is today.

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Mar 28, 2017

I hope that is abandoned. I hope the import tax discussion ends.

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Mar 28, 2017

I appreciate and I hope that our friends in Mexico got a very clear sense that there is a bipartisan different view about the U.S.-Mexico relationship than that which is expressed by the administration.

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Mar 28, 2017

But inadvertently when comments are made in the United States by its leaders that ultimately are incendiary about Mexicans, it drives the poll numbers of its right wing candidate.

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Mar 27, 2017

I think little has changed in Iran's historical strategic objectives and objectives throughout the region.

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Mar 27, 2017

Iran has been testing the resolve of the international community's arms control protocols by testing ballistic missiles.

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