Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"Congress has a Constitutional responsibility to regulate American commerce, and an inquiry into PIF's investment in the United States is well within this Subcommittee's mandate."

"We are dealing here with one of the most repressive autocracies on the planet."

"Saudi Arabia's use of sovereign wealth fund resources to attempt to gain influence in the United States should trouble us all."

"Under Crown Prince bin Salman, Saudi Arabia remains a brutal regime, utterly resistant to criticism."