Robert Menendez actually said...

"to support the President, this and any future one, to degrade and defeat ISIL, and at the same time not to provide the open-endedness..."

"This is the most critical vote that any Member of the Congress will take, which is basically a vote on war and peace and life and death."

"I look forward to getting some answers from our witnesses that will allow us to move forward in writing and passing an authorization."

"What it did not do, and what I think Democrats are not willing to do, is to give this or any other President an open-ended authorization for war, a blank check."