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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.
on behalf of Senator Leahy, I ask unanimous consent that a law clerk on his staff, Brendan Forbes, be granted floor privileges for the week of July 18, 2011. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
I just think that we have come to a point in which it seems that the tax code for those who benefit by it... is a moral issue, but it also is a fiscal issue.
It seems that those who are the wealthiest in the country, that major entities like the oil and gas industry that is getting $21 billion in tax breaks when they are going to make $144 billion in profits this year alone, no, we cannot touch…
It really going to require real shared sacrifice, because I look at GDP in this country and about 70 percent of it is driven by domestic consumer demand.
I find it alarming that there are people running for high office in this country and others already in significant positions who suggest that there is no great concern to allowing the Nation to be a deadbeat, to default, and no real…
I think it is fair to turn around and start managing and taking a look at that issue.
A provision that I successfully included in Dodd-Frank would require publicly listed companies to disclose in their SEC filings the amount of CEO pay, the typical workers' pay at that company and the ratio of the two.
At the end of the day, they can make all of their commissions, but they have one standard. That would be the best interest of the investor.
I rise today deeply concerned that our Republican colleagues, in their ideological haze, have lost sight of the facts and the real people at home whose lives will be affected by the choices we make. They are lost in an ideological haze, a…
I regret that our colleagues have objected to a consent request to go to some of the most critical issues the country is facing--to have the Finance Committee meet on trade agreements that could expand markets and ultimately create jobs in…
If as part of our effort help strengthen the opportunities for sustainable development efforts and education efforts in the hemisphere, we give rise to a growing universe of citizens.
So I hope we will change course and move more aggressively ahead on the areas that I see as concerns in terms of our democracy programs.
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