Robert Menendez
United States senator for New Jersey Robert Menendez speaks during a press conference in the International Law Enforcement Academy in San Salvador, El Salvador on April 29, 2013. Senator Menendez visited el Salvador in the framework of a Central American tour that includes Guatemala and Honduras.
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I think there are two scandals here ... One is the (IRS') management failures and the whole process of singling out specific groups. The other is how we take statutory authority and then extrapolate it differently than what the Congress meant.
There's a second scandal, and that is that hundreds of millions of dollars had been used in C-4s that are supposed to be used a non-profit social welfare entities, for political purposes ... It is pretty outrageous that the IRS went after small Tea Party groups when Karl Rove is out there saying he's using these C-4s to change the outcome of the next election.
There's a second scandal, and that is that hundreds of millions of dollars had been used in C-4s that are supposed to be used a non-profit social welfare entities, for political purposes ... It is pretty outrageous that the IRS went after small Tea Party groups when Karl Rove is out there saying he's using these C-4s to change the outcome of the next election.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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In Menendez's troubles, echoes of past scandals
-- An ethical cloud is following Sen. Robert Menendez in Washington, even as he has leading roles in some of Congress ' most important policy debates.The New Jersey Democrat heads the Senate 's Foreign Affairs Committee at a time when tensions with Syria , Read more »
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Menendez says he looks forward to vindication
-- Sen. Robert Menendez , who has maintained all along that he never paid prostitutes for sex, said he is looking forward to whatever evidence emerges from courts in the Dominican Republic to vindicate him.A Dominican lawyer on Monday released an affidavit Read more »
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Lawmakers push measure on Israel's self-defense
and producing nuclear medical radioisotopes for medical use.The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said he hopes for real progress toward a negotiated solution, but "we will not talk for talking sake."The resolution Read more »
Around the web
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Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda
Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). "This is an important moment," Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. "You will be 1:51 PM from Foreign Policy Read more »
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Raising Bayonne Bridge will add jobs, billions in revenue, says Sen. Robert Menendez
roadway of the Bayonne Bridge is raised, an estimated 250,000 jobs and $36 billion in revenue will flow into the region, Sen. Robert Menendez said yesterday morning. The roadway of the Bayonne Bridge is to be raised 64 feet to 215 feet, which will allow the 3:03 AM from NJ.com Read more »
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Iran policy reaches day of reckoning
Affairs Committee on Wednesday, while a similar bill is being advanced in the Senate by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL). The bills are expected to reach their final form and from The Washington Post Read more »
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Menendez: Examine tax-exempt claims by political partisans
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 13, 2013. UPI/Kevin Dietsch License photo WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- A top U.S. Senate Democrat said Congress should expand its focus on the Internal Revenue Service and examine the use of from United Press International Read more »
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Small NJ breweries seek boost from Congress
it to beer to infuse the halls of Congress with a little bipartisan spirit. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat, and dozens of other congressional colleagues on both sides of the political aisle are joining to support twin pieces of legislation they say from The Vineland Daily Journal Read more »
