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Source: United States Senator for Nevada Cortez Masto

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Source: United States Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore)

Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Cory Booker

Washington, DC — Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement:

“The Supreme Court’s sweeping decision striking down New York’s 100-year-old gun permitting law is not only wrong but wildly out of step with the American public, who overwhelmingly support common sense gun safety laws. This decision undermines public safety and makes our communities less safe. 

“Following the disastrous and wrongly decided Heller decision by throwing out a century-old law that has stood the test of time and legal challenge is just the latest example of the Supreme Court’s activist conservative majority imposing its ideology on the American people, further contributing to the Court’s crisis of legitimacy.

“This decision also directly threatens New Jersey’s gun permitting law that helps protect the people of my state and the United States from gun violence and burdens future state efforts to do the same.”

Source: United States Senator for Vermont Patrick Leahy

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Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez

WASHINGTON –  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 Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in unveiling new legislation to reauthorize the Peace Corps for the first time in over two decades. Authorizing the appropriation of over $410,000,000 per year for the Peace Corps, the bipartisan Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022 proposes to increase Volunteers’ health care coverage, statutorily raise Volunteers’ readjustment allowance, expedite return-to-service opportunities for those impacted by COVID-19 and future comparable emergencies, and expand the agency’s Sexual Assault Advisory Council.

 

“I am incredibly proud to be joined by my colleagues in introducing this long overdue reauthorization of the Peace Corps. By reauthorizing the agency for the first time in over 20 years, we honor and applaud the countless Volunteers over the last six decades who have dedicated themselves to fostering peace, encouraging cultural exchange, and facilitating friendship worldwide,” Chairman Menendez said. “Today’s efforts demonstrate our bipartisan commitment to ensure the Peace Corps is both reflective of the United States’ rich diversity and talent, and that its volunteers and the broader Peace Corps community are fully supported, including through necessary student loan reforms. I look forward to working with my colleagues to hold the Peace Corps accountable and to making sure it can meet the real-time needs of those currently in the field and beyond.”

 

“The 2022 Peace Corps Reauthorization bill is a bipartisan effort to reauthorize the Peace Corps for the first time in over a decade and to provide necessary reforms to improve the safety and security of volunteers as they re-enter the field,” said Ranking Member Risch. “By reauthorizing the Sexual Assault Advisory Council, mandating security briefings, improving whistleblower protections, and adding a new authority to suspend Peace Corps volunteers without pay in the event of misbehavior, the Peace Corps will be able to better support volunteers at home and abroad.”

 

“The Peace Corps is one of the most impactful volunteer humanitarian forces in the world, transforming lives and forging international understanding. It’s volunteers represent the best qualities of American society and reflect the diversity of the American people,” said Senator Cardin. “The Peace Corps invests time and talent in other countries, and it pays dividends back here in the United States as well. I’m proud of our bipartisan effort to continue support for the Peace Corps and will continue to work to ensure that it has the tools needed to carry out its mission safely and efficiently.”

 

“Our Peace Corps volunteers represent American values and serve communities throughout the world in exemplary fashion. This bill helps get them back in the field after the COVID pandemic in a safe and responsible manner,” said Senator Young.

 

“Peace Corps volunteers are a key part of America’s diplomacy abroad, serving to support local communities and promote our nation’s values and priorities. Countless projects centered on economic development, education and health care have been made possible by volunteers over the last six decades,” said Senator Shaheen. “I’m proud to support the Peace Corps program, which has garnered overwhelming bipartisan support, and I’ll continue to push for funding from Congress to help our volunteers grow and flourish abroad.”

 

“The Peace Corps plays an important role in promoting U.S. interests and international peace by sending Americans to volunteers in some of the most underserved areas around the world,” said Senator Portman. “I am pleased to support this bipartisan legislation and I hope that it can rapidly move through committee to the Senate Floor.”

 

The bipartisan legislation also serves as the Senate companion to H.R. 1456, which is led by Representatives John Garamendi (CA-3) and Garret Graves (LA-6), and was approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in September 2021. Among its key provisions, the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022:

 

• Authorizes $410,500,000 to be appropriated annually for the Peace Corps for fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
• Sets a statutory minimum of $375 per month for the Peace Corps Volunteer readjustment allowance, which the Peace Corps can exceed.
• Requires the Peace Corps to establish a safe return to service process for those whose service is interrupted due mandatory evacuations from catastrophic events or global emergencies like COVID-19.
• Suspends federal student loan interest during the duration of Volunteer service; allows for members of the Peace Corps to receive credit during their time of service under any income based repayment program or the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program run by the Department of Education; ensures the Peace Corps is providing access to mental health professionals for Peace Corps Volunteers.
• Extends transitory health care coverage for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) from 30 days post-service to 60 days, and provides a path through which RPCVs can obtain healthcare through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; ensures Peace Corps Volunteers receive adequate health care during their service, including health examinations preparatory to their service.
• Enumerates procedures and policy to protect Volunteers against reprisal and retaliation.
• Codifies two years of noncompetitive eligibility for RPCVs.
• Mandates the Council consider and make recommendations to strengthen Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) efforts at the Peace Corps, including through the collection of workforce data; streamlines and diversifies the appointment and selection process for Council members.
• Expands Peace Corps eligibility to include United States citizens who are nationals of American Samoa.
• Increases Peace Corps Volunteers’ level of workers compensation from GS 7 step one to GS 7 step five.
• Extends the Sexual Assault Advisory Council until October 2027 and requires the Council to submit annual reports on their work to Congress. 

 

Find a copy of the bill text HERE.

Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement following the Committee’s approval of their resolution recognizing the Marshall Plan’s role in founding a transatlantic community committed to the preservation of peace, prosperity, and democracy. The bipartisan resolution, which reaffirms the United States’ policy to cooperate with transatlantic allies and partners and congratulates the German Marshall Fund (GMF) on its fiftieth anniversary, moves next to the floor for consideration by the full Senate.

 

“Seventy five years since its unveiling, the Marshall Plan continues to serve as the guiding force behind the U.S.’ active and reliable engagement in the transatlantic community,” Chairman Menendez said. “As Putin’s brutal siege on Ukraine continues, this is one of the most important moments in decades to reaffirm our ability to come together in the face of autocratic aggression to maintain stability and safeguard democracy. I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to secure Senate passage of this common sense resolution, and to send yet another message to Putin that makes clear transatlantic unity has never been stronger.”

 

“The Marshall Plan helped build the world order we enjoy today by serving as a foundation for a transatlantic community committed to the preservation of peace, prosperity, and democracy in Europe following World War II. It also laid the groundwork for Europe’s economic success while reinvigorating the U.S. economy,” said Ranking Member Risch. “In the last 100-plus days, we’ve seen that world order again threatened by another dictator – this time by Putin in Ukraine. As such, I’m proud the committee passed our resolution today commemorating the 75^th anniversary of the Marshall Plan and reaffirming our support for European allies and partners as we work to help the citizens of Ukraine feed their families and rebuild their homeland.”

 

Find a copy of the resolution HERE.

Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) recent proposal that will bar new homes built in flood-prone areas and small businesses from receiving National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) coverage. The Biden Administration proposal, which resembles many of the points detailed in the Trump Administration’s policy plan to overhaul NFIP, was discussed today at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing.

 

“I want to note that I find it highly unusual that FEMA sent to Congress an unsolicited 17 section NFIP reauthorization bill that in my view would do significant harm to the program and homeowners alike. Many of the ideas reflected in this proposal were part of a 2017 House Republican bill that was rejected by the Democrats majority,” said Sen. Menendez, a senior member of the Banking Committee. “In fact, just last week E&E News noted the similarities between this proposal and a proposal written by then-OMB Director Mick Mulvaney during the Trump Administration. FEMA’s proposal will lead to more people uninsured and unprotected against more frequent storms, higher costs for families, and higher barriers to owning a home and a small business.”

 

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In May, FEMA sent a proposal to congressional leadership outlining the reauthorization of the NFIP for ten years. Most of the points laid out in the proposal, are based on ideas that were outlined in a letter to Congress by former Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in 2017 as recently reported by E&E News.

 

Last year, Sen. Menendez introduced his National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform Act which tackles systemic problems with flood insurance, puts the program back on solid fiscal ground, and reframes the nation’s entire disaster paradigm to one that focuses more on prevention and mitigation in order to spare the high cost of rebuilding after flood disasters.

 

The Senator also blasted Risk Rating 2.0, FEMA’s new rating system, which went into effect last October and is expected to raise premiums on 80% of NFIP policyholders nationwide. Sen. Menendez highlighted a Redfin report showing 84% of policyholders in majority-Hispanic communities will face the largest share of increases compared to other racial and ethnic groups. When the Senator asked if FEMA considered whether the Risk Rating 2.0: Equity In Action would disproportionately burden majority-Hispanic communities, David Maurstad, Deputy Associate Administrator for Resilience at FEMA, simply said “no.”

 

Nearly 20% of policyholders are expected to drop their insurance because of the hikes, according to FEMA. Last September, Sen. Menendez called on FEMA to delay the implementation of Risk Rating 2.0.

 

Doug Quinn, Executive Director of American Policyholders Association testified about the importance of affordable flood insurance during last week’s Banking Committee hearing. Quinn is a Marine veteran who moved back into his newly-rebuilt, elevated home in Toms River’s Silverton section in 2019 after Superstorm Sandy sent three-foot waves crashing into the family’s ranch-style house, inundating it with four-foot-deep floodwater. Despite a $254,000 damage assessment and $250,000 in flood insurance coverage, the Quinns initially received only $92,000, of which their mortgage company held half, leaving them with little money to remediate and rebuild.

 

During his opening testimony, Quinn called on Congress to pass the Senator’s NFIP Re Act in order to keep premiums affordable and to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in the program.

 

Sen. Menendez has been the leading advocate in Congress for an overhaul of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) since Superstorm Sandy devastated New Jersey nearly 10 years ago.

In June, Sens. Menendez and John Kennedy (R-La.) introduced the National Flood Insurance Program Consultant Accountability Act, which would enhance the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) ability to protect homeowners from parties found guilty of fraud that involved in NFIP property damage assessment.

Sen. Menendez first exposed the problem of widespread lowballing of flood insurance claims during Congressional hearings he chaired in 2014, and then successfully pushed FEMA to reopen every Sandy flood insurance claim for review, which compensated Sandy victims with more than $260 million in additional payments they were initially denied.

 

Sen. Menendez’s Homeowner’s Flood Insurance Affordability Act was signed into law in 2014 to address skyrocketing rates many Sandy survivors were encountering.  In 2013, he shepherded the original $60 billion federal Sandy aid package through Congress.

Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) today reintroduced the Payment Choice Act to ensure customers have the freedom to choose how to pay for goods and services. With the increased use of electronic and contactless methods of payment and many businesses refusing cash, consumers without access to financial services face a disproportionate burden. The bipartisan legislation would prohibit retail businesses from refusing to accept cash as a form of payment and charging a higher price for using cash than for other forms of payment.

 

“While electronic payments are a convenient method for customers to pay for goods or services, completely refusing cash as a form of payment denies people, frequently in underserved populations, from having equal access to participate in our economy,” said Sen. Menendez. “Our bipartisan, commonsense legislation would guarantee everyone who carries legal tender printed and backed by the U.S. Treasury, and especially those who are unbanked or underbanked, can continue to fully participate in the economy.”

 

“Prohibiting cash payments is an act of discrimination against the millions of Americans who do not have bank accounts or prefer cash. It also forces customers to exclusively use a less secure form of payment. The Payment Choice Act protects people’s right to participate in the economy using their preferred form of payment. If businesses unilaterally stop accepting cash, why do we print money? Is it really legal tender for all debts as it says?,” said Sen. Cramer.

 

While the majority of American households have access to all of some financial services, 5.4 percent of U.S. households are unbanked, meaning they don’t have a checking or savings account. 16 percent of Americans are underbanked, which means they rely on a variety of financial services, such as money orders, to make transactions. Unbanked and underbanked consumers are more likely to have lower incomes, less education, or be a member of a racial or ethnic minority group.

 

Despite a decline in cash payments during the past few years, they represent 19 percent of all payments in the U.S. economy according to a recent study.

 

In 2019, the State of New Jersey enacted S. 2785, a state law that makes it illegal for businesses to refuse cash as a payment option. A similar law has existed in Massachusetts since 1978.

The Senate version of the Payment Choice Act is a companion bill to H.R. 4395 introduced by Representative Donald Payne. H.R.4395 passed the House on June 15, 2022 as an amendment to H.R. 2543, the Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Recovery Act. The Consumer Choice in Payment Coalition (CCPC), a broad-based group of consumer advocates, businesses, and nonprofit organizations supports both bills.

“We believe it is critical to ensure that cash remains a universally available payment option for consumers throughout the nation,” said Linda Sherry, of Consumer Action national advocacy group, a member of the Coalition. “Noncash transactions generate vast amounts of data, recording the time, date, location, amount, and subject of each consumer’s purchase, which are available to digital marketers and advertisers who are engaged in developing and refining increasingly sophisticated techniques to identify and target potential customers.”

“We greatly appreciate Senators Menendez and Cramer work to protect cash as a vital ongoing payment option for consumers that will help us maintain the strength of our economy,” said Bruce W. Renard, Executive Director of the National ATM Council, and a Co-Chair of the Coalition.  “Enactment of the Payment Choice Act will help keep the U.S. Dollar strong and stable here at home, and preserve its status abroad as the world’s leading fiat currency. Maintaining universal acceptance of cash provides all Americans with a low-cost, user-friendly, private, and reliable payment option of immense benefit to us all, individually and collectively.”

The text of the bill can be downloaded HERE.

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Source: United States Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today published an op-ed for the leading Mexican newspaper Reforma on the impact of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s decision to strain the U.S.-Mexico relationship by using the Summit of the Americas to make demands on behalf of the dictatorships in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The Chairman raised concerns about the pressures on democracy and the rule of law in Mexico, and makes the case against continuing Donald Trump’s doctrine of bluster, insults and aggressions against the U.S.-Mexico relationship.

 

The Spanish version of the Op-Ed can be found HERE. Below is an English version.

 

The Impact of AMLO’s No-Show

By Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

 

The relationship between Mexico and the United States is far too important for our diplomacy to be based on all bluster and no progress. Those were my warning words to President Donald Trump in 2016 after he launched what became the most anti-Mexican U.S. presidency in modern history. Little did I expect to have to use that same advice for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, someone who actually understands our shared history, common values and interests, and the enduring mutual respect between our nations. 

Alas, President López Obrador’s no-show at the Summit of the Americas was an undeniable setback in our efforts to build bridges, not walls, between our nations. His absence, an effort to coerce President Biden into inviting the trio of dictators from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to sit at a table of democratically-elected leaders, backfired. It cost the Mexican people an opportunity to have their interests represented by their president at the first regional gathering of leaders in over four years. It also raised real questions about Mexico’s reliability as a partner in the global fight against democratic backsliding.

 

With leaders from across the political spectrum gathered in Los Angeles, the Summit was an important step towards reinvigorating hemispheric discussions about the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and advancing initiatives capable of delivering the benefits of economic growth to all of our citizens. Leaders in attendance were also able to forge a new consensus on how our region will respond to unprecedented levels of migration in the hemisphere. The impact of not having the head of the third largest democracy in the hemisphere at the table was as palpable as it was lamentable.

 

After years of insults and aggressions under the previous Administration, Trump inflicted unacceptable damage to U.S.-Mexican relations – making the Mexican-American community a favored target for his hateful rhetoric, insisting Mexico would pay for a border wall, threatening Mexico with tariffs, and, according to his former Secretary of Defense, Trump even contemplated firing missiles into Mexico to attack drug cartels.

 

In stark contrast, President Biden came to office with a focus on restoring bilateral relations and reversing Trump’s disdain for U.S. values and partners. His approached is based on a fundamental understanding that the United States and Mexico have a relationship nearly unmatched in the world, and the future of both our nations depends in large part on this relationship working at its best. In that context, the Summit of the Americas was a golden opportunity to continue writing a new chapter in the cooperation between Mexico and the United States. 

Instead, President López Obrador made an unconscionable decision to further strain the U.S.-Mexico partnership by using the summit to make demands on behalf of Miguel Díaz Canel, Nicolás Maduro and Daniel Ortega – brutal regimes notorious for their political prisoners, extrajudicial killings, forceful disappearances, and arbitrary detentions.

It is no secret that Mexico’s citizens never would have wanted former President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz embraced by international leaders after the Tlatelolco massacre. Nor would Chileans have wanted Dictator Augusto Pinochet to be celebrated on an international stage. For that reason, and without any doubt, President Biden was right to decide there was no space for brutal autocrats in a meeting of democratic leaders. 

 

Most concerning of all is the fact that President López Obrador’s alignment with these dictators comes at a time democratic actors in Mexico and around the world are raising concerns about the erosion of democracy and the rule of law under his watch. In the last three and half years, there has been a growing use of Mexico’s judiciary for political purposes, attacks on press freedoms, a plethora of assassinated journalists, an unabated trend of disappearances of Mexican citizens, and a proliferation of challenges posed by drug cartels undermining governance.

 

Simply put, Mexican democracy is under duress. President Lopez Obrador’s decision to boycott the Summit, and his justification for it, has only further contributed to fears surrounding the shaky health of Mexico’s democracy and its partnership with the United States.

For those of us who care deeply about the U.S.-Mexico relationship and the role it plays in our hemisphere, there is a lot of work ahead. Next month, when President López Obrador travels to Washington for meetings at the White House, I will continue working with President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken to ensure that these issues are part of the agenda in all of their meetings. Because a foreign policy doctrine that centers on embracing autocratic leaders, giving a cold shoulder to our closest allies, and a personal agenda that comes at the expense of the values and interests of our people is a strategy destined to fail both in the United States and in Mexico.

 

La relación entre México y los Estados Unidos es demasiado importante para que nuestra diplomacia se base solo en fanfarronadas y no en avances concretos. Esas fueron mis perlas de sabiduría para el presidente Donald Trump en el 2016, después de que lanzara lo que se convertiría en la presidencia estadounidense más antimexicana en la historia moderna. Nunca esperé tener que usar ese mismo consejo con el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, alguien que entiende la historia compartida, los valores y intereses comunes, y la importancia del respeto mutuo en la relación entre nuestras naciones.

 

Lamentablemente, la ausencia del Presidente López Obrador en la Cumbre de las Américas este mes fue un gran paso atrás a nuestros esfuerzos por construir puentes, no muros, entre los Estados Unidos y México. Su boicot, una reprimenda al presidente Biden por no invitar al trío de dictadores de Cuba, Venezuela y Nicaragua, fracasó. El desplante termino costándole al pueblo mexicano la oportunidad de tener sus intereses representados por su presidente en la primera reunión de líderes de la región en más de cuatro años. Y en última instancia, el capricho del presidente solo generó más dudas sobre la fiabilidad de México como socio en la lucha global en contra del retroceso democrático.

 

Habiendo reunido líderes de todo el espectro político en Los Ángeles, la cumbre fue un momento clave para reactivar discusiones para contrarrestar los efectos hemisféricos de la pandemia del COVID-19 y acordar iniciativas que brinden beneficios del crecimiento económico a todos nuestros ciudadanos. Los mandatorios presentes también lograron forjar un nuevo consenso para responder a los altos niveles de migración que abruma a nuestra region. El no poder contar con el jefe de la tercera democracia más grande del hemisferio fue tan palpable como lamentable.

 

Tras cuatro largos años de insultos y agresiones, Trump resquebrajó las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y México. Todos tuvimos que aguantar a un presidente estadounidense que hizo de la comunidad mexico-americana su blanco preferido de la retórica de odio. Trump juró en vano que México pagaría por un muro fronterizo, amenazó a México con aranceles, y, según su exsecretario de Defensa, incluso contempló disparar misiles a México para atacar a los cárteles de la droga.

 

En un marcado contraste, el presidente Biden asumió su cargo con el propósito de establecer un régimen político para restaurar relaciones bilaterales y revertir el desprecio de Trump por los valores y socios de EE.UU. Su buena voluntad se basa en parte por el entendimiento que Estados Unidos y México cuentan con una relación casi inigualable en el mundo, y el futuro de nuestras naciones depende en que esta relación funcione. En ese contexto, la Cumbre de las Américas constituía una oportunidad de oro para asegurar el progreso de este nuevo capítulo en la cooperación entre México y los Estados Unidos.

 

Desgraciadamente, el presidente López Obrador optó por la decisión poco adecuada e ineficaz de tensar aún más la relación entre ambos países al utilizar la cumbre para hacer exigencias en nombre de Miguel Díaz Canel, Nicolás Maduro y Daniel Ortega; dictaduras que se conocen a nivel mundial por sus presos políticos, ejecuciones extrajudiciales, desapariciones forzadas, y detenciones arbitrarias.

 

Todos sabemos que los mexicanos nunca hubieran querido que el expresidente Gustavo Díaz Ordaz fuera recibido con bombos y platillos por líderes regionales después de la masacre de Tlatelolco. Y los chilenos tampoco hubieran aceptado que el dictador Augusto Pinochet fuera celebrado en un escenario internacional. Por eso, no hay duda, el presidente Biden actuó correctamente al decidir que no habría una silla abierta para caudillos en una reunión de líderes democráticos.

 

Lo más preocupante de todo es que el alineamiento de López Obrador con dictadores llega en un momento en que actores democráticos en México y en todo el mundo llevan tiempo expresando su creciente preocupación por la erosión de la democracia y el estado de derecho bajo su mandato. En los últimos tres años y medio, hemos visto el uso cotidiano del poder judicial de México con fines políticos, ataques a la prensa libre, un alarmante número de periodistas asesinados, una crisis de desapariciones de personas y un estallido de desafíos a raíz de los cárteles de la droga que intentan socavar la gobernabilidad.

 

En pocas palabras, la democracia mexicana está bajo presión. Y la decisión del presidente López Obrador de boicotear la Cumbre de las Américas, y su justificación, solo aumentan los temores en torno a la frágil salud de la democracia de México y su asociación con Estados Unidos.

 

Para los que realmente nos preocupamos por la relación entre nuestros países y el papel que juega en el hemisferio, hay mucho trabajo por delante. El próximo mes, cuando el presidente López Obrador viaje a Washington para reuniones en la Casa Blanca, seguiré trabajando con el presidente Biden y el Secretario de Estado Blinken para asegurar que estos temas sean parte de la agenda en todas sus reuniones. Porque una doctrina de política exterior que se centre en abrazar a líderes autocráticos, dar la espalda a los aliados, y una agenda personal que ignore los valores e intereses del pueblo, es una estrategia destinada a fracasar tanto en los Estados Unidos como en México.

 

Bob Menéndez representa al estado de Nueva Jersey en el Senado de los Estados Unidos. Miembro del partido demócrata, es el Presidente del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado.