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Menendez's resignation will temporarily reduce the Democratic majority in the Senate to 50-49 until Murphy's appointee is sworn in to finish what remains of Menendez's current six-year term, which ...
Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez will resign next month after he was found guilty on all 16 counts in a federal bribery and corruption trial. The New Jersey senator officially informed Gov. Phil ...
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is slated to resign by the end of the day Tuesday, about a month after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges. Menendez signaled his resignation last month in ...
After Menendez's conviction, Gov. Phil Murphy issued a statement calling on him to resign and took things a step further, and said that if the senator would not resign, the "U.S. Senate to vote to ...
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) will resign from the Senate next month after being convicted in a bribery scandal last week. The Senate on Tuesday received Menendez’s resignation letter ...
Here is a closer look at what could happen to Menendez's seat now. Expulsion The Constitution gives Congress the power to punish its members and requires a two-thirds majority to expel a lawmaker.
If Menendez declines to resign, the panel could make a recommendation that the Senate expel him. It takes two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 votes, to expel a member.
Sen. Bob Menendez has shown no sign he will voluntarily resign from the Senate following his conviction on bribery charges, leaving Democratic senators contemplating an expulsion effort to force ...