Honorable Robert Menendez
United States Senator, New Jersey, Democrat
Representative Menendez was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2005. 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 sits on the following committees: Banking, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development; Energy and Natural Resources; Finance; and Foreign Relations, where he chairs the Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance,…