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{{Officeholder
|name=Robert Menendez
|image=Menendez.jpg
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Jane Menendez (div.)
|religion=Roman Catholic
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=New Jersey
|terms=January 18, 2006 – Present
|preceded=[[Jon Corzine]]
|former=n
|succeeded=
}}
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=New Jersey
|district=13th
|terms=January 5, 1993 – January 18, 2006
|preceded=Jim Saxton
|former=n
|succeeded=Albio Sires
}}
}}
'''Robert "Bob" Menendez''' (born January 1, 1954) is the junior [[United States]] [[Senator]] from [[New Jersey]] and a member of the [[Democratic Party]]. After being appointed to fill the vacant Senate seat left by [[Governor]] [[Jon Corzine]], Menendez was elected to a term in his own right with 53% of the vote in 2006. He has voted with his Democrat colleagues 97.2% of the time. <ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000639/</ref> In the 2010 midterm elections, Menendez is chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Previously he served as a U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 13th congressional district.
==External links==
*[http://menendez.senate.gov/ Official Website]
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Bob_Menendez.htm Menendez on the issues]
==References==
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[[Category:United States Senators]]