[Berlin_Freeper]

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is leading a highly-charged hearing this morning in which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, providing a preview of what will likely be a new, powerful role for Menendez.

Menendez, who is Cuban American, is the first Latino elected to the U.S. House and Senate from New Jersey and would become the first Latino chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. His rise to the top of a panel with broad authority to oversee U.S. foreign policy will mean new attention to relations with Central and South America, normally a diplomatic backwater.

Menendez criticizes Flake over Castro brothers spring break joke

[lentulusgracchus]

Menendez, who is Cuban American, is the first Latino elected to the U.S. House and Senate from New Jersey and would become the first Latino chair of the Foreign Relations Committee.

What ..... no inevitable joke yet about "Foreign Relations"?

Menendez better watch it -- Slick Willie will crash his next party. "Did somebody say, Dominican prostitutes?"