Robert Menendez actually said...

"It is incredibly important."

"Will you be an advocate for maintaining democracy assistance in governance programs?"

"The question is, what is your advocacy at a given point in time? Are these the essential programs that are necessary, as Secretary Mattis has said, that this is how we fight these ideologues?"

"The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be, and the more consequential to Iran's destabilization of the region."