Honorable Robert Menendez
United States Senator, New Jersey, Democrat
Senator Menendez was first appointed to the U.S. Senate in January 2006 and elected to a full term that November. He served on the Union City (New Jersey) Board of Education from 1974 to 1982, as Union City Mayor from 1986 to 1992, in the New Jersey Assembly from 1987 to 1991, in the New Jersey Senate from 1991 to 1992, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2006. He chairs the Foreign Relations Committee and also sits on the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development,…