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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.
I regret that my dear friend and colleague from Alabama has the need to object. This is an opportunity, with a bipartisan amendment, to help Main Street and small businesses; an opportunity to create 40,000 jobs; an opportunity to do it…
You know, Mr. Ferrer, do--let me get this straight. Do you support, as one of the options in the plebiscite, the association--sovereignty in association with the United States?
I have always said, when it comes to Puerto Rico, we must have an unstacked, and unbiased process that allows the people of Puerto Rico to determine their own future.
Puerto Ricans have given a great deal to our Nation, through their contributions to our economy, and to the Armed Forces of the United States.
this impossible proposal has been 'consistently opposed by federal authorities . . . on both constitutional and policy grounds.'
I agree we need to make sure we have a strong regulatory agency to act as cops on the beat. We need to make sure those cops on the beat are doing their job. I agree we should require financial regulators to respond when inspectors general…
I would rather have the President of the United States, with the interests of the American people, whatever President that might be, be the appointing authority over an agency where the IG is not going to be beholden to the agency that…
I rise because the Senate has three choices on how it is going to protect coastal communities from the economic ravages of the oilspills we are seeing in the gulf. We can have fishermen, coastal residents, and tourism-based small…
Look, I regret that my distinguished colleague from Oklahoma has decided to object. I would simply say that if you are an ``independent,''--and some of these independent companies are valued at $40 billion--does that mean that because you…
So is it my understanding that because of your concern about these other independents, let's call them, you would allow them--if they were the cause of this incident--to limit their liability just because they are small?
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