Robert Menendez actually said...

"Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considers four nominations."

"The administration has expressed its strong disappointment both publicly and privately in meetings with senior Russian officials."

"We think we have made real progress in terms of having Russia be part of the international community, being part of the P5+1 as opposed to being on the outside."

"The proposition that we have tried to make to President Medvedev and other Russian Government officials is that we want to make our bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia more imp..."