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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is calling on the Biden administration to take whatever steps it deems necessary to expedite and support the immediate transfer of fighter aircraft from NATO and Eastern European countries to the government of Ukraine. The request follows a personal and sobering plea on Saturday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S. lawmakers requesting Soviet-era fighter jets that the Ukrainian Air Force can immediately use to counter Putin’s ongoing and indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a series of oversight letters to five regional Assistant Secretaries of State to request specific details about the State Department’s diplomatic strategies to counter Russian influence and aggression, including how they are working to ensure that countries around the world are imposing and enforcing sanctions on the Putin regime and the Russian economy.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chairman of the SFRC Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today unveiled the United States-Colombia Strategic Alliance Act of 2022, a new legislative initiative that lays out a comprehensive agenda for U.S.-Colombia relations focused on expanding engagement on issues of inclusive economic growth, anti-corruption, international security, environmental protection, and refugees and migration.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led seven of their Senate colleagues in writing a letter to President Joe Biden calling for democracy, good governance, and human rights to be top priorities for the upcoming US-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Leaders Summit. In light of recent trends toward democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia, the senators emphasized their concerns that, if left unaddressed, developing dynamics in the region will undermine the United States’ efforts to work with partners to construct a free and open Indo-Pacific.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this afternoon’s full Committee hearing entitled “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Assessing the U.S. and International Response.”
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision on Monday to formally recognize the independence of Moscow-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine:
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined José Díaz-Balart on MSNBC to discuss U.S. efforts to stand with Ukraine as the Kremlin’s threat of invasion continues to grow as well as other news of the day:
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, led a bipartisan group of senators, including Senate Foreign Relations Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), as well as Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), on a new, bipartisan resolution in support of Ukraine amid increased Russian aggression.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at today’s full Committee hearing: “Reinvigorating U.S. - Colombia Relations.” Today’s hearing follows the Senator’s publication of an opinion piece in the Miami Herald unveiling the U.S.-Colombia Strategic Alliance Act of 2022, new legislation to drastically strengthen the U.S.-Colombia relationship.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined his counterparts from the United Kingdom, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan in issuing the following joint statement regarding the growing threats to the peace, security and territorial integrity of Ukraine:
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today participated in Cornell University’s Einaudi Center Lund Critical Debate event entitled “Migration in the Age of Pandemics.”
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today published an op-ed in the Miami Herald announcing he will introduce new legislation to drastically strengthen the U.S.-Colombia relationship.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Senate Banking Committee Chairman and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today released the following joint statement that the U.S. Senate stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine:
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to Senate Republican’s introduction of a partisan Russia sanctions package:
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U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business and Charles Payne on Fox News to discuss Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the Biden Administration’s mixed messages.
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement joining the international backlash in response to a report issued by Amnesty International in which it accuses the state of Israel of the crime of apartheid:
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing entitled “Sudan's Imperiled Transition: U.S. Policy in the Wake of the October 25th Coup.”
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U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in advance of the first anniversary of the coup in Burma on February 1:
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U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined join Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning newsmaker show to discuss Kremlin aggression against Ukraine and the latest on his effort for Congress to pass comprehensive, bipartisan legislation that would impose crushing sanctions on Vladimir Putin and the Russian economy in the event of a re-invasion of Ukraine. Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) also joined the conversation.
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Following a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s Meet the Press Daily to provide an update on his effort for Congress to impose crushing and mandatory sanctions on Russia in the event Putin further invades Ukraine.