Bob Menendez

Out of approximately 2 million student loan borrowers who have been in repayment for more than 20 years, just 32 have ever qualified for loan cancelation.

It was $6.5 million, according to your company's filings.

Two percent. That is an approval rate, not a rejection rate. So as of June 2020, approximately 98 percent of borrowers who applied for PSLF have been rejected.

Luckily, working with Senator Warren and myself on the Finance Committee, we ended up with a provision of law that no longer has forgiveness be subject to income.

In 2017, it was approximately $6 million.

I certainly believe that we can do better by giving the resources to the agency so that everybody pays their fair share and there is not a disproportionate burden.

I come to the floor in honor of an historic occasion: the 200th anniversary of Greece's independence. I am delighted to join the Greek-American community in New Jersey and across the United States in celebrating this bicentennial. The…

Now the 2017 Republican corporate tax bill was the largest corporate tax giveaway in our Nation's history, period, from my view.

The 2017 GOP corporate tax law was poorly conceived and drafted, which has resulted in many unintended consequences.

So corporations got a permanent cut, and average citizens in short order will then find themselves again with a whack.

You know, I have listened with interest to our Republican colleagues claim that dropping the corporate rate down far below the OECD average is the holy grail of U.S. competitiveness.

But because working families are not politically connected and do not make big campaign contributions, they get stuck paying the bill.

So are--I am sorry. Please.

I love pieces of legislation that use some of the best tools of free societies to help other free societies.

We want the OAS to be strong and be willing to call out problems throughout the region.

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.

Dictatorships, they collapse under pressure. They never collapse if they do not--if you do not put pressure on them.

We must advance new initiatives to ensure the integrity of elections in the Americas.

The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy, and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.

We definitely need to address the humanitarian situation of the--of the people in Venezuela, but we need to create internationally the conditions in order to have a unified agenda.

I believe that we must restore our commitment to promoting democracy as a central objective of U.S. foreign policy.

The United States has to continue to fervently advocate for democracy promotion in the world and in our Hemisphere.

Impeccably qualified for the position.