In Immigration Debate, Menendez Sees Opportunity

“The moment that Senator Robert Menendez has craved may have finally arrived.

At 53, he has spent 14 years in Washington, most of it as a member of the House who was largely unknown outside of northern New Jersey or political circles in Washington.

But Mr. Menendez, who was elected to his first full Senate term last fall, has long chafed at the image that emerged of him during those years: that of a hardened and wily politician who mastered the insider’s game on Capitol Hill and in Hudson County, N.J., a brutal political incubator.”

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