Robert Menendez actually said...

"So if you are to be confirmed----"

"The only regional bank that did not receive--everybody--I heard the voices of the Department as it related to everybody else. I didn't hear it about the IDB."

"Funding for the region suggests that it is not a priority for this administration and that we haven't yet made the connection between poverty, citizen security, transnational crime, narcotics traffick..."

"The Western Hemisphere is our hemisphere, and its nations are our friends, our neighbors, our allies, and our economic partners."