Robert Menendez actually said...

"It is regretful, the way the time has gone, that so many of our colleagues cannot be here because this is the part of Cuba that members need to hear because there is this romanticism but not the harsh..."

"I hope my colleagues who are so passionate... about democracy and human rights... are almost silent when it comes to Cuba."

"Do you want the committee to believe the Cuban Government has never sponsored any act of terrorism over the last half century?"

"The Cuban Government does not have much credibility. People do not pay much attention to what they say."