Bob Menendez

Hamas remains a terrorist group bent on Israel's destruction.

I want to call your attention to what is happening here in our own hemisphere, and I appreciate that probably more than any other Secretary of State, your travel to the hemisphere has been extraordinary.

I think the stronger and more uniform the message is, the fewer challenges we will have getting countries to join us in common cause toward something that is in their mutual national security interest.

I think it sends a very clear message to our allies abroad, joining with the Europeans that are already pursuing an oil embargo, about the seriousness of this nature.

I would have preferred that we had some scale, but I have heard the arguments for why having a subjective criteria may be better.

I hope you agree with me that the best peaceful diplomacy tool left to us to stop Iran's march toward nuclear weapons is the vigorous enforcement of the sanctions policy that we presently have, particularly the Central Bank of Iran.

We live in a new world. It is a world in which an airplane used for commercial and business travel has become a weapon of mass destruction.

There have been independent sources that have stated that Hezbollah has training camps in the jungles of Venezuela.

Iran seeks to increase its stature by countering U.S. influence and expanding ties with regional actors in Latin America.

One of my concerns I mentioned in the opening statement is that places like Venezuela and Bolivia require no visa from Iran.

I think that targeting the IRGC is exactly right.

That's why we definitely need to be engaged.

The amendment that I authored and was passed 100 to nothing on sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran...

Several of you mentioned uranium exploration. This is something that we have sought to address in the Iran sanctions bill...

Is the search for operational capacity something that we should be concerned about?

I do believe the Obama administration has actually engaged in more sanctioning activities and enforcement of sanctions activity than ever before.

Our concern here is obviously substantive and we think that it is important to review all of the views that exist, to understand the depth of Iran's intentions and clarify their participation.

I assume if that's the case you wouldn't have accepted our invitation; is that correct?

Iran is seizing headlines around the world as its leadership pursues a singular agenda, to achieve nuclear weapons capacity.

Would the budget be different if that had not been the preface which this administration was working on?

We took a remarkably strong fiscal position and we jeopardized future generations of Americans by eroding those huge gains on fiscal discipline.

Would it not be better to refinance, have a responsible borrower, keep, maybe even join, have the conservator join in shared appreciation mortgages maybe so that the Federal output is further preserved?

It is important that the conditions of how that is done, because working with organizations like yours or Brand New Day or Citizen Action, that brings a certain reality of community-based understanding of the properties involved.

I guess anyone else in the neighborhood looking at that sales price could use it as comparables to file a tax appeal.

If we were to do tranches of properties with investors, it really has to have a connection at the end of the day with community-based entities