with George Packer, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Robert Menendez and more on Sep 13, 2007
Robert Menendez is a Democratic Senator from New Jersey. In January 2006, he was appointed by Jon Corzine to fill the seat made vacant by Corzine’s resignation from the Senate to serve as Governor of New Jersey; Menendez subsequently won the seat in the November 7 general election later that year. Before his appointment to the Senate, he represented New Jersey’s 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2006. He currently resides in Hoboken. He is the first Hispanic to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Menendez
