Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Robert Menendez

Menendez Launches Big Oil Subsidy Tracker

By Ben Goldman | May 25, 2012 | No Comments

As we head into the Memorial Day holiday, and move from one congressional recess to another [PDF], Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has given us something to do with our extra free time: Watch taxpayer subsidies to big oil climb higher and higher. The clock, dubbed a STOP watch (for “Stop Taxpayer Oil Payouts”), tracks the […]

Sen. Menendez Introduces Bill to Plan For Livable Communities

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has taken up where former Senator Chris Dodd left off. Last week, Menendez offered a fresh version of Dodd’s Livable Communities Act. The bill would formally authorize the HUD Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities and its Regional Planning and Community Challenge grant programs, restoring funding for those programs to […]