Robert Menendez actually said...

"I have always supported the Foreign Commercial Service in its mission. I think the office's work is critical to U.S. exporters."

"We have not seen an authoritarian crackdown of this nature in our hemisphere in decades."

"If the United States is going to successfully diversify away from China we'll need to deepen our trading relationships with our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere."

"There are a number of actions that the United States could take against countries that take authoritarian actions and experience alarming declines in human and civil rights."