article_snippet: Menendez told reporters on Friday, I have 'always conducted Menendez appropriately and in accordance with the law. '
article_snippet: I am not going anywhere,' Menendez promised.
article_snippet: Tricia Enright, Menendez communications director, told Daily Mail Online in a statement that 'the facts will ultimately confirm' that The senator behavior was in no way improper. '
article_snippet: Menendez, 61, has seen pressure from the Obama administration over President Obama positions on Cuba and Iran.
article_snippet: CNN leaked a story about an impending indictment right after the [American Israeli Public Affairs Committee] conference, right after Bob Menendez said, to Bob Menendez great credit, stood up and said I want to look at any deal you with Iran,' South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham charged. '
article_snippet: Meanwhile, the conservative activist group American Commitment has called on Menendez to resign his office.
article_snippet: Menendez, now the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman until two months ago, has become a thorn in the White House's side by taking positions that grate on President Obama.
article_snippet: Menendez opposed the president's rapprochement with Cuban strongman Raul Castro, saying in December that Menendez actions 'have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government.'
article_snippet: Menendez has stood in the way of the State Department's negotiations with Iran, threatening to lead Congress in imposing new sanctions on the Islamic Republic if the Islamic Republic doesn't shelve the Islamic Republic nuclear ambitions.
article_snippet: I have to be honest with you,' Menendez said during a January 21 Capitol Hill hearing. '
highlights_snippet: 'I am not going anywhere,' New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said Friday .
  