Robert Menendez actually said...

I look at our arsenal of peaceful diplomacy tools and largely it is the use of our aid and our trade as an inducement to countries to react ...

There is really no room to sit and negotiate with Assad for a transition toward democracy.

I am a supporter of the Export-Import Bank, but I just want to press its importance and its relative size compared to other countries.

the failure to reauthorize the Bank amounts to America's unilateral disarmament in the face of other Nations' aggressive trade finance progr...