Robert Menendez actually said...

"Development finance is an important tool to realize U.S foreign policy objectives and can be especially effective in countering malign influence of China and other adversary nations."

"This is a sensitive ongoing investigation and is a top priority for Secretary of State Antony Blinken."

"We need to make sure that our participation in our hemisphere to help people do not fuel corruption or oligarchs that are stealing the resources from their own people."

"the way to stop it and the time to stop it is before the fact rather than after the fact by voting for the sanctions that both Democrats and Republicans have supported repeatedly"