Robert Menendez actually said...

"I want to know the standards, the material steps that China needs to take to demonstrate the kind of significant progress it would need to raise its ranking."

"So let me ask you this, if their actions, as you say, are affecting their own interests, but they seem to be on a course that continues to affect their own interests in the negative..."

"China is the epicenter of the problem, which is going to kill tens of thousands of Americans per year, unless we stop it."

"I would just simply say that part of our challenge, which I recognize, if we are going to be intellectually honest, is that, with China as our banker, that is an increasing challenge."