Bob Menendez actually said...

"It just seems counterintuitive that we are trying to affect the Russian economy, and then we are trying to create business ties."

"I thought it was our policy to put economic pressure on the Kremlin to stop attacking our elections, its illegal occupation of Ukraine, its war crimes in Syria."

"that is why Russia is not part of the G7 today."

"you do not become an oligarch in Russia unless Putin makes you one, right?"