Jim Himes actually said...

"We know that he was willing to hold up a foreign aid to Ukraine while they were under attack by Russia, he got impeached for that."

"Sanctions are an important instrument in foreign policy, designed to be both a carrot and a stick in persuading an entity, an individual, a group, or a country to change its behavior."

"It almost begins to feel like intimidation rather than what it almost most certainly was, which was an effort to go after the president's political opponents."

"We need to understand why it was originated and then we also need to understand why Attorney General Bill Barr restarted that investigation."