Robert Menendez actually said...

"Unfortunately, as we speak here today, there is another improbable and surprising external power calling the shots in Venezuela and interfering with the will of the people there, Cuba."

"We must also be perfectly clear that a foreign power is acting openly in Venezuela, fueling the country's instability and economic and political crisis."

"the primary responsibility for the excessive, unjustified use of force rests with the Maduro administration."

"the Maduro government would clearly love to turn their domestic crisis into a bilateral one, and we should not be sucked into that dynamic"