Robert Menendez actually said...

"to support the President, this and any future one, to degrade and defeat ISIL, and at the same time not to provide the open-endedness..."

"But even without an Iraq or Afghanistan-sized commitment still can commit thousands of troops for a long period of time."

"The President already has statutory authority to act against ISIL, but a clear and formal expression of this Congress' backing at this moment in time would dispel doubt."

"We must learn from the tragic foreign policy mistakes of the past. We cannot afford to make them again."