Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I find it absolutely abhorrent and incomprehensible that this Nation is providing taxpayers' dollars to a Russian export agency that not only provides arms to President Assad in Syria but also is, in ..."

"They are dependent on those helicopters until they are not."

"Thank you very much."

"If they cannot use American helicopters, I hate to be over-dramatic, they are not going to be able to defend themselves anyway."