Bob Menendez

The Senate will not stand by any agreement that binds the American people to targets or timetables on emissions without our advice and consent.

Whatever deal is reached in the back rooms of the Paris Climate Change Conference, it has been telegraphed by this administration that the deal will be a calculated end run around Congress.

The President's joint announcement with China has sent a loud and clear signal that a Paris deal could be an economic and environmental loser for the American people.

Putin's vision and his long-term goals and intentions, I think, have been very clearly stated and had not changed.

I personally believed that lethal defensive weapons should be considered for Ukraine.

We do have an obligation to fulfill it, and in that context, Ukrainians are saying, please help us, let us defend ourselves.

I personally have been an advocate, as I think the majority of this committee has, of providing lethal weapons to the Ukrainians--lethal defensive weapons to the Ukrainians.

If there are no consequences for Russia not to keep their commitments other than that which exists, there is not necessarily a reason for them to pursue their commitments.

Look, I want to focus on the reality. We had the IMF managing director here in a private session with the members of the committee...

With U.S. help, newly vetted and trained police officers are now patrolling the street of Kiev, Odessa, Lviv, and Kharkiv.

But from my perspective, hope is not a national security strategy.

What are we going to do with Russia because they have shown themselves, so they now think that military intervention, not only here, but in Syria, serves their aims.

We will judge Russia and the separatists not by their words, but by their actions.

Ukraine needs serious military aid and assistance to be able to defend its territory and to push back against these Russia-backed separatists.

I think our European allies, Germany and France, are working very hard, but I think that the United States should be engaged there as well.

The Budapest Agreement where we gave Ukraine security assurances if they gave up their nuclear weapons that we would protect their territorial integrity, that has not worked out too well for them.

Minsk remains a goal worth fighting for because the alternatives for Ukraine are bleak.

So you believe we gave them explicit assurances?

We gave security assurances to the Ukraine in the Budapest memorandum. We wrote it down and told them, give up your nuclear weapons, and we will make sure that we protect your territorial integrity.

I get concerned when I read the President saying in an interview, I think it was with Tom Friedman, that Iran should be a regional power.

I found it a little amazing to see the Secretary of State next to Foreign Minister Lavrov.

The United States, in line with the position of the international community, supports the efforts of the CAR authorities to hold the first round of Presidential and legislative elections in October 2015 or as soon as possible.

It is essential for Congress to approve the pending legislation I introduced with Senators Schumer, Blumenthal, and others, which would allow the government of Puerto Rico to authorize its public utilities to rework their debts under…

But I also understand that at the core of the problem, as Ms. Lindborg says in her testimony, that the most generous contribution of the United States only scratches the surface.

At some point their displacement is going to lead them to be refugees, and when it leads them to be refugees, we are going to even have a more significant crisis.