Robert Menendez actually said...

"This hearing is particularly timely given the debate the Senate recently held on the U.S. military support to the Saudi-led coalition."

"I would urge you--it would be very good to have an administration witness, and from my perspective, I believe most of it can be done in public."

"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..."