Tag Archives: Bob Menendez

Menendez Shows Once Again He’s More Focused On Saving His Own Job, Than Helping To Grow New Jersey Jobs Just four days after the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the national unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent in April and on the same day the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that “the long-term outlook for the national debt [is] increasingly,” Senator Bob Menendez cast his lot with America’s trial lawyers today ahead of his state’s small business owners. Menendez joined with his liberal Democrat party leaders today in support of the so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act,” a bill that is opposed by virtually every major small business organization in the country – see below – and even the liberal Washington Post editorial board warned that it represents “a flawed approach to job bias…[and] could make employers vulnerable to attack for responding to market forces.” And as the Wall Street Journal…

Senate Democrats Sought $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In response to this evening’s announcement by the deficit reduction Super Committee that they were unable to reach any bipartisan agreement , the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the failure of leadership by Senate Democrats, and their addiction to higher taxes and more wasteful Washington spending, will be a defining issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in New Jersey. “After years of reckless government spending, unemployment mired at 9 percent and a $15 trillion debt that grows daily, the negotiations of the last few weeks have been a remarkable commentary on the misplaced priorities of Bob Menendez and his fellow liberal Democrats. “Voters should rightfully wonder why Senator Menendez and his fellow Democrats didn’t show the same zeal for actually solving our nation’s problems as they…

Republicans Release New Video Highlighting Menendez’s Reckless Spending Agenda When Bob Menendez first came to Washington in January 1993, the federal debt stood at $4.1 trillion – a figure which took over 200 years for our country to reach.  Yet, today, and particularly over the last three years as Menendez has rubber-stamped every major spending initiative proposed by President Obama, the federal debt has now grown to the once-unfathomable mark of $15 trillion – a 265 percent increase and more than $48,000 for every American man, woman and child.  As CBS reports, this is “the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.” To mark the United States Treasury reaching the $15 trillion debt mark yesterday, and to highlight the massive spending by Senator Menendez and President Obama that has led to this point, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released a new web video – “$15,000,000,000,000…Siriously” “Each…

Senate Democrats Seek $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New “Stimulus” Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In August, Congress created the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the “Supercommittee,” with a mandate of trimming government borrowing by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. At the time, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said the committee should “put jobs first,” and “make employment the top priority of our government.”  But over the last 24 hours, voters in New Jersey have started to get a better idea of what, exactly, Senator Menendez and his fellow Democrats in Congress meant by that… Late yesterday, Senate Democrats leaked their current proposal to numerous media outlets, and its highlights include $1.3 trillion in new tax hikes, as well as upwards of $300 billion in new “stimulus” spending sought by President Obama. “It’s a remarkable…

Menendez-Backed Senate Majority Leader Thinks ‘Private Sector Jobs Have Been Doing Just Fine,’ ‘Says Government Jobs Must Take Priority’ In a speech on the Senate floor this morning – which would appear to exemplify the disconnect between some in Washington versus small businesses in the real world – Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid explained why Senate Democrats are seeking to pass yet another $425 billion stimulus.   According to Reid, “It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine” and that’s why Democrats are focusing on growing more government jobs with this legislation. Remarkably, Reid’s out-of-touch statement comes on the same day a new Labor Department report was released showing that for the first time, Washington D.C. – with its plethora of government jobs – has surpassed Silicon Valley as the wealthiest metropolitan area in the entire country. Given that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has come out in…

In what Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill called a “shocking development” last night, liberal U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) – who is the only sitting U.S. Senator currently under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice – and his Senate Democrat bosses rashly used what is known as the “nuclear option” to suddenly kill a key Senate rule that protects the democratic rights of the minority party. Politico reports that the power grab “threatens to further inflame partisan tensions and stymie legislative action,” while the Atlantic notes that it “may fundamentally diminish the powers of the minority party in the Senate,” and that “both liberals and conservatives are troubled by what may come of it.” “Last night’s vote is further proof that Bob Menendez is willing to recklessly put his narrow partisan agenda in Washington ahead of the best interests of New Jersey and the nation,” said National Republican…

Blocks Bill To Replenish FEMA & Avert Government Shutdown, Then Skips Town With thousands of Americans across the country desperately needing disaster relief funds in the wake of devastating hurricanes, tornados, floods, wildfires and earthquakes, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) stood behind his liberal party leadership in Washington today and blocked a bill that includes $3.7 billion in immediate disaster relief assistance, while averting a government shutdown next week. The bill was blocked despite acknowledgments from these very same Democrat leaders that FEMA “could run out of money as soon as Monday.”  Yet, what’s more, instead of staying in Washington and working through the weekend to address this very serious problem, Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid announced there will be no more votes in the Senate until Monday. “Once again, Bob Menendez had a choice to make today – to stand behind Harry Reid and her fellow liberals in Washington,…

In yet other indication of how harmful liberal Senator Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) massive health care overhaul is to middle-class families in New Jersey, Washington newspaper The Hill reports today that one of the law’s major provisions is poised to slam families with higher insurance costs: A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014. Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this could dramatically undercut support for the law, which is already unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections. “Bob Menendez ignored the best…

Shameful Threats Underscore Broken Promises, Reckless Deficit Spending As a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, Democrat Bob Menendez presented himself to New Jersey voters as a fiscal hawk, calling Washington’s deficit spending “immoral.”  But now it’s been 806 days since Menendez and his fellow Senate Democrats have so much as passed a federal budget – during which time our national debt has ballooned to a record-high $14.3 trillion.  Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury now reports that our federal government’s deficit is on track to top $1 trillion this fiscal year. But rather than take responsibility for his broken promises and failure to perform this basic job function, Menendez and his Washington party bosses are now threatening to withhold payments from Social Security recipients and members of our armed forces, unless Republicans agree to their demands for job-killing tax hikes. As the Associated Press reports: Echoing President Barack Obama’s warning, Senate…

Washington Post Writer Pulls Back Curtain On Senate Democrats Putting Politics Ahead Of Passing Bipartisan Reforms For those who have been following the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations and questioned the difficulty of both parties reaching a bipartisan agreement, a new report by a left-leaning blogger for the Washington Post is instructive. The Post’s Greg Sargent reports that Senate Democrat campaign strategists who are overseeing U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) re-election bid have concluded that passing much-needed Medicare reforms will squander their efforts to score political points by scaring New Jersey seniors. This comes despite even President Obama making clear that everything should be on the table to start reining-in our out-of-control federal debt. Top Democrats in charge of keeping the Senate in Dem hands and maintaining the political health of the party — DSCC chair Patty Murray and messaging chief Chuck Schumer — have privately expressed frustration that deep Medicare…