Bob Menendez Jr.

We have got a real problem on our hands.

I think that is pretty outrageous.

It is a very high priority for the Congress. They put it into law.

There is no such thing as medical marijuana.

An authorization for the use of military force is the single most significant vote a Member of Congress can take because it is about sending and committing our sons and daughters to war and to actions and risking their lives.

Well, I was asking you for a strategy, not goals.

You want me to put my faith in you, but I cannot do that blindly.

I am trying to think about which is the Mike Pompeo that I am being asked to vote on.

This has a connotation of foreign policy, because this is about Russia.

So, you are answering, yes, it is in the national security interest to withdraw because you will have a strategy. Is that what your answer is?

For me, these questions being answered truthfully in a forthcoming way are critically important, because it goes to the very essence of how you approach one of the most critical issues that we have.

So it is not for me just simply a question of interest. It is a question of understanding what you were asked, how you responded, and what you did.

What is wrong is that the United States of America is not there.

mission statements may not be policy directives, but in this case, you have established your pattern and a practice of suggesting that HUD intends to reverse course and ignore its statutory obligations to end housing discrimination and…

Is it just simply true? Yes or no.

I suspect there are some televisions being watched right now at the Department of Health and Human Services.

This is a big job that has a lot of influence over how HHS spends taxpayer dollars.

I look at the elections as only one measurement, at the end of the day, of a totality of what we want to see in a country in terms of rule of law or transparency or respect of minorities.

In some cases, that is effectively what we have done. And I think there are two things we need to think about.

So Freedom House's latest annual report said that democracy faced its most serious crisis in decades in 2017 as its basic tenets, including guarantees of free and fair elections, rights of minorities, freedom of the press, the rule of law…

I wrote Google a letter last year asking them to address this issue and explain their policies on cracking down on advertisers of counterfeit goods, but I still have not had a response.

the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act that Congress passed in 2016 contained report language that I authored.

If we are going to have policies that ultimately affect the ability to be that engine for part of economic growth of the country, we should be considering that as well.

I would suggest that stock buybacks do not quite do that.

Inflation is continuing to run below the Fed's 2 percent target.