Bob Menendez | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Bob Menendez


00:02:12 1 Early life
00:03:29 2 Early political career (1986–1993)
00:04:22 3 U.S. House of Representatives (1993–2006)
00:04:30 3.1 Elections
00:05:25 3.2 Tenure
00:09:17 4 U.S. Senate (2006–present)
00:10:05 4.1 Elections
00:10:13 4.1.1 1996
00:10:59 4.1.2 2006
00:11:37 4.1.3 2012
00:11:53 4.1.4 2018
00:12:08 4.2 Committee assignments
00:13:01 4.3 Caucus memberships
00:13:28 4.4 Tenure
00:13:36 4.4.1 Immigration issues
00:16:34 4.4.2 Environmental issues
00:16:57 4.4.3 Education issues
00:18:07 4.4.4 Gay marriage issues
00:19:02 4.4.5 Gun law
00:19:22 4.4.6 Foreign affairs issues
00:22:00 4.4.6.1 Senate foreign relations committee
00:22:42 4.4.6.1.1 Foreign affairs legislation sponsored
00:24:09 4.4.7 Other issues
00:29:53 4.5 Attempted implication in prostitution scandal
00:31:09 4.6 2015 federal indictment on corruption charges
00:33:42 5 Awards and honors
00:34:16 6 Personal life
00:34:46 7 Electoral history
00:34:55 7.1 New Jersey Assembly
00:35:04 7.2 State Senate
00:35:13 7.3 House
00:35:55 7.4 Senate
00:36:03 8 See also



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Robert Menendez (; born January 1, 1954) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Jon Corzine, and was later elected Chair of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in January 2013. He stepped down from that post in April 2015 upon being indicted on federal corruption charges.
In 1974, at the age of 20, he was first elected to the Union City School District's Board of Education. In 1986, he won the election for Mayor of Union City. In 1988, while continuing to serve as mayor, he was elected to represent the state's 33rd district in the General Assembly of New Jersey and, within three years, moved to the New Jersey State Senate, upon winning the March 1991 special election for the 33rd Senate district. The next year he won a seat in the Congress of the United States for the House of Representatives and represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district for six two-year terms, from 1993 to 2006. In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Corzine (who had been elected 54th Governor of New Jersey), and was elected to a full six-year term in November; he was reelected in 2012 and 2018. Menendez is one of four Latinos in the Senate. In 2015, he was ranked #1 on The Hudson Reporter's annual Power List of the "Fifty Most Powerful Political Figures in Hudson County".In 2015, Menendez was indicted on federal corruption charges in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, related to alleged favors he did for Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen and gifts he received from him, including campaign donations and private flights. Melgen was charged as well. Menendez has pleaded not guilty to all charges.  His trial ended in a hung jury and a mistrial on November 16, 2017. On January 31, 2018, the Justice Department announced they were dropping all charges against Menendez.