Robert Menendez actually said...

"I have strongly supported and have said in my visits to Ukraine, as well as those who have visited from Ukraine to the United States, that there is a need to continue vigorously on the path to reform ..."

"I look forward to working with you and the committee to make it happen, not for diversity's sake alone, but for what it brings to our foreign diplomacy."

"In the absence of it, we basically allow the State Department, with all their good intentions, to decide what is the course without congressional direction and oversight."

"I am deeply disappointed. I have been working at this for 24 years... and we just really have not made progress."