Its different this time : Sen. Bob Menendez’s performance to be judged on the world stage

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Its different this time : Sen. Bob Menendez’s performance to be judged on the world stage
Tuesday September 3, 2013, 10:58 PM
BY  HERB JACKSON
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
The Record

Completing his evolution from the anti-war skeptic that New Jersey first elected to the Senate in 2006, Sen. Bob Menendez took a lead role Tuesday in the push to attack Syria and was working personally to write the resolution authorizing force.

The role is arguably the biggest Menendez has played in more than two decades in Congress and, if he succeeds in bringing a majority of skeptical senators to agreement, would permanently put an end to questions he faced about whether he was qualified to fill a crucial committee chairmanship.

Like many of his fellow Demo¬crats who had once railed against federal policy toward Iraq — including President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, Menendez’s predecessor as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee — Menendez takes pains to explain how Syria is different.

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