Robert Menendez actually said...

"To be clear, the terrorist threat in Yemen does not excuse the conduct of the Saudi coalition, which bears significant responsibility for the scale of civilian casualties and damage to civilian infras..."

"Given our committee's jurisdiction over the execution of U.S. foreign policy and the State Department in particular, it is fundamentally necessary that we receive testimony from the very administratio..."

"It seems to me that the full implications and details of the text should be publicly vetted before a vote."

"The reality is in the past we have had specific hearings on a specified AUMF to be marked up before we actually voted on it."