The significance of Bob Menendez’s return to the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

US Senator Bob Menendez's return to the chairmanship of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is very important for America, for our commitment to democracy and human rights and for areas in which he has particular interest, such as Cyprus, Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church. His return is important for a number of reasons. Many consider Menendez to be one of the brightest, if not the brightest, of the 100 US senators. He has a rare understanding of his president and his secretary of state as Joe Biden and Tony Blinken served and worked with him on the Foreign Relations Committee as chairman and staff director, respectively.

His chairmanship is important to a widely divided America. He plans to make his committee operate in a more bipartisan manner and move toward a non-partisan foreign policy. He will strengthen our constitutional system as he...