REUTERS/Mike Segar Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Charges that Senator Bob Menendez accepted bribes in exchange for wielding his influence to aid the Egyptian government prompted calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for the Biden administration to rethink $235 million in military aid to Cairo. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Middle East subcommittee, said he hoped the committee would investigate the allegations and Egypt's involvement. "I have not talked to colleagues about this yet, but obviously this raises pretty serious questions about Egypt, Egypt's conduct," he said. The indictment against Menendez also says he had close relationships with members of Egypt's intelligence services and held meetings to discuss U.S. military aid. He has stepped down temporarily from his role as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Persons: Robert Menendez, Nadine Menendez, Mike Segar, Bob Menendez, Biden, Chris Murphy, Menendez, Murphy, Joe Biden's, Don Beyer, Beyer, Patricia Zengerle, Tom Hogue Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, U.S, Congress, Democratic, Relations, Foreign Relations, Egypt Human Rights Caucus, U.S . Senate, CNN, Thomson Locations: Jersey, Union City , New Jersey, U.S, Cairo, Egypt, Washington