WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: With the Gun Violence Archive reporting that guns have killed more than 14,000 Americans so far in 2023 -- including at least 185 mass shootings - U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) announced today that the Firearm Safety Act -- common sense legislation to allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission to create safety standa  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following statement on May 2, 2023: * * * "It's hard to think of someone more committed to elevating our country's highest ideals than Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah. Since immigrating to the United States over thirty years ago, Mayor Khairullah has contributed to his community, become a U.S. citizen, successfully run for elected office, and is now serving his fifth consecutive term as mayor. He embodies the American dream  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) reintroduced the Transit to Trails Act, legislation that would provide equitable access to parks, green spaces, and public lands and waters. The bill would establish a grant program that will fund projects to make transportation to these spaces more accessible for underserved communities. Underserved communities are   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez (both D-N.J.) applauded the Senate confirmation of Michael Farbiarz and Judge Robert Kirsch to serve on the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. Senator Booker is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I am thrilled that the Senate has confirmed Michael Farbiarz and Judge Robert Kirsch to the federal bench in New Jersey. They are both highly qual  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Mike Lawler, R-New York, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) released the following statement after assisting in the introduction of the New York-New Jersey Watershed Protection Act, legislation that restores and protects the vital water resources of the Hudson, Mohawk, and Raritan Rivers and their tributaries. "One of the 17th Congressional Districts most important features is the Hudson River," said Congressman Lawler. "  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- Rep. Rob Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: During the Committee on Homeland Security's mark-up session, Congressman Rob Menendez offered two amendments to the House Republicans' "Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023". Menendez's amendments would stop taxpayer dollars from being spent on ineffective and costly border wall construction and would authorize the Biden Administration's effective Operation Blue Lotus to continue fighting drug tra  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Rob Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: Yesterday, Congressman Rob Menendez returned from a bipartisan Congressional Delegation (CODEL) to Israel and Jordan where he met with top government officials including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and King Abdullah II of Jordan. Menendez joined Democratic and Republican colleagues to engage two of the United States' most important and strategic allies beginning on Thursday, Apr  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Andy Kim, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Today - and in the middle of Small Business Week - Congressmen Andy Kim (NJ-03) and Tim Burchett (TN-02) introduced the Access Business Credit (ABC) Act that would create a new incentive program that would empower community banks to lend to small businesses by easing their tax burden. "Small businesses are the lifeblood of New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District's economy. When small businesses   more

PALISADES PARK, New Jersey, May 5 -- Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), an Associate Member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), joined a roundtable hosted by the Korean American Association of New Jersey (KAANJ) with community and business leaders from the Korean American community in North Jersey. The group discussed combating the Congestion Tax and hate against the ​​Asian American and Pac  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer announced the introduction of the bipartisan, bicameral Invest to Protect Act. The bipartisan Invest to Protect Act -- led by Gottheimer, former Sheriff Rep. John Rutherford (FL-5), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Steven Horsford (NV-4), and retired NYPD detective Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (NY-4) -- will make critical, targeted investments in  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued the following testimony by Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-New Jersey, at an April 18, 2023, member day hearing on transportation and infrastructure priorities: * * * Thank you Chairman Graves, Ranking Member Larsen, and Members of the Committee for providing me the opportunity to testify today. I also want to thank my good friends and colleagues from New Jersey, Reps. Payne and Menendez, for their outstanding work to   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both-D-N.J.) joined 253 members of Congress in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, urging the Court to reverse the district court's stay on the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval of mifepristone. In April, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the lower court rulin  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee that oversees the insurance industry, today announced the reintroduction of the bipartisan Clarifying Law Around Insurance of Marijuana (CLAIM) Act, which would ensure legal marijuana and related businesses have access to comprehensive and affordable insurance coverage. Joining the S  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) announced a total $12,237,784 for the state of New Jersey from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the nation's Housing Trust Fund (HTF), an affordable housing production program that complements existing federal, state, and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of high-quality, safe affordable h  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) announced a total $12,237,784 for the state of New Jersey from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the nation's Housing Trust Fund (HTF), an affordable housing production program that complements existing federal, state, and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of high-quality, safe affordable h  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) announced a $5,000,000 supplemental grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to improve the William Stanley Ablett Village in Camden to provide safe and improved housing for families and individuals in the city. "The City of Camden has made great strides in improving public housing in recent years, providing   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release and letter on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.), today sent a letter to Medieval Times, urging its CEO and President, Perico Montaner, to cease all union busting activities and to negotiate in good faith with workers in their Lyndhurst, New Jersey, and Buena Park, California castles who formed their first collective bargaining units. "As you are aware, despite your com  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both-D-NJ), alongisde Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.-09), have formally asked the United States Secret Service and the Biden administration for an explanation of why longtime Prospect Park, New Jersey Mayor Mohamed Khairullah was denied entry to the White House on the evening of May 1. The Mayor had planned to attend a reception marking an en  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: On World Press Freedom Day, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), alongside Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), re-introduced legislation to strengthen protections for journalists and the free press when engaging in essential newsgathering. The Journalist Protection Act would make intentionally harming or intimidating a working journalist a federal crime to send   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 3 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) held a press conference today at Chandler Health Center to underscore the devastating impact House Republicans' Default on America Act would have on Americans' health care coverage. House Republicans are fabricating a crisis to justify passing the dangerous bill, which passed on a party line vote in the House last week. It would kick   more

LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, May 4 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following statement on May 3, 2023: * * * Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today issued the following statement after New Jersey Republicans held a partisan hearing on marine mammals and offshore wind: "Republicans at the federal and state level need to stop their opposition to offshore wind. We know that the climate crisis is the biggest threat to marine mammals and their habitats. A moratorium on offsho  more

LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, May 3 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced plans to introduce legislation to fix Risk Rating 2.0 and reform the entire National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) this month. In the announcement, he expressed his longstanding concerns with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Risk Rating 2.0's impact on New Jersey and called on federal officials to increa  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today condemned a statement from Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott referring callously to the murder victims of another mass shooting as "illegal aliens." "Every day, leading Republican officials in America achieve new lows," said Congressman Pascrell. "Referring to the murdered victims of another mass shooting in the way Greg Abbott did is c  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) joined 18 colleagues in introducing the Ukraine Victory Resolution in the House of Representatives last week. The bipartisan resolution affirms that it is the policy of the United States to see Ukraine victorious against the Russian invasion, holds that the peace brought by victory must be secured by integrating Ukraine into NATO, and declares tha  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and his colleagues have reintroduced the Postal Police Reform Act, a bill to reverse a 2020 directive from the Chief Postal Inspector restricting Postal Police Officers to physical postal locations and preventing officers from fully executing their duty to ensure public safety within the nation's mail system. Co-leading this legislation with Congressman Pascrell  more

PATERSON, New Jersey, May 3 -- Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release and letter on May 2, 2023: U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), and U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) have formally asked the United States Secret Service and the Biden administration for an explanation of why longtime Prospect Park, New Jersey Mayor Mohamed Khairullah was denied entry to the White House on the evening of May 1. The Mayor had planned to attend a receptio  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Representative Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11), alongside a bipartisan group of New Jersey Members of Congress, called on New York Governor Kathy Hochul to cancel the pending implementation of New York City's congestion pricing plan, which will impose significant new costs on New Jersey commuters and families. "New York's congestion pricing plan is currently an unfair hit against New Jersey families that will dou  more

MIDDLETOWN, Indiana, May 5 -- Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, issued the following news release and letter: A new state-of-the-art community health center marked its grand opening in Red Bank today to help expand access to critical health care services for Monmouth County residents, said Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester), who requested and secured $400,000 in federal funding to help complete the project. As part of Smith's efforts to win funding support for the Red Bank health center, he elevate  more

EWING, New Jersey, April 29 -- Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) called for major judicial reforms including Court expansion at a press conference outside Trenton City Hall Saturday morning. The Congresswoman was joined by former Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards and former Biden Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States Commissioner Caroline Fredricks  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Sen.) -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today made a splash by reintroducing the bipartisan New York-New Jersey Watershed Protection Act, legislation that supports the restoration and protection of the vital water resources of the Hudson, Mohawk, and Raritan Rivers and their tributaries. This bill would help $20 million i  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: This week, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) cosponsored the reintroduction of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and U.S. Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott's (D-Va.) Child Care for Working Families Act, comprehensive legislation to tackle the child care crisis and ensure families across America can find and afford the high-quality child care they need. "Access to safe, high-quality c  more

RAHWAY, New Jersey, May 2 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) joined today with New Jersey advocates, providers and parents at Helping Hands Learning Academy in Rahway to discuss the devastating impact the House Republican Default on America bill would have on working families and to the child care industry which is already struggling to stay afloat from the impact and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic had o  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following statement on May 2, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) issued the following statement in response to news reports that the Biden Administration will be deploying 1,500 troops to the Southern Border ahead next week's expected end of the Trump-era border policy known as Title 42: "The Biden Administration's militarization of the border is unacceptable. There is already a humanitarian crisis in the Western   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) spoke on the Senate floor today in support of Michael Farbiarz and Robert Kirsch, two nominees for U.S. District Court of New Jersey that are scheduled to be voted on by the U.S. Senate. "Mr. Farbiarz and Judge Kirsch are two phenomenal nominees to fill New Jersey's final judicial vacancies. They are the final pieces of the puzzle as I -- alongside Senator B  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, today participated in a hearing entitled, "Barriers to Mental Health Care: Improving Provider Directory Accuracy to Reduce the Prevalence of Ghost Networks," about how Congress can act strategically to improve access to mental health care and address the access barriers created by so-called "ghost net  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today questioned Patty Hernandez, Executive Director for Headwaters Economics, Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund, and Roy Wright, President of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety and forme  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) joined Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, MD (D-Wash.-08) in reintroducing legislation to protect medical providers in states like New Jersey - where abortion care remains legal - from Republicans' attempts to restrict their practice and create uncertainty about their legal liability. The Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health   more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today was joined by Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) in welcoming the Committee's approval of their resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement--the historic compromise that laid the foundation for an era of  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today were joined by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in introducing a Senate resolution to commemorate World Press Freedom Day (May 3).  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) previewed a new initiative to task a number of Chairs to begin working with their Ranking Members on a bipartisan China Competition bill that builds off the work the Senate accomplished last Congress. Standing with Sena  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), met with opposition leader and former interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaido who recently fled Venezuela for his safety. Guaido was elected by the V  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded committee passage of S.Res.106, a resolution condemning Beijing's destruction of Hong Kong's democracy and rule of law. "I welcome the Committee's approval of our bipartisan resolution condemn  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded the committee's passage of the Western Hemisphere Partnership Act , legislation to strengthen U.S. diplomatic, economic, and security relations with democratic countries in Latin America and t  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was today joined by Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) in applauding the Committee's approval of their bipartisan resolution to commemorate the 202nd anniversary of Greek Independence Day. The bipartisan resolution, which celebrates Greece's historic role as  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today were joined by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) in releasing the below statements applauding the Committee's passage of their Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Ne  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), were joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Tim K  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today reintroduced the Vieques Recovery and Redevelopment Act - bipartisan legislation that would address the severe health inequities faced by the residents of Vieques off the coast of Puerto Rico. These severe health outcomes are a result of environmental contamination caused by the U.S. Navy's decades-long usage of the island for military t  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at this morning's full Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Ms. Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru; Mr. Arthur W. Brown to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuad  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined by Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in releasing the below statements following Committee approval of their Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the Department of State to investigate and p  more