Bob Menendez

If the OAS were to, however, nonetheless admit it, wouldn't we be sending a message beyond Cuba to the entire hemisphere that those principles of democracy, human rights, universal suffrage, are something that we'll just, you know, look…

It talks about the right to a democracy. It talks about representative democracy. It talks about human rights. It talks about fundamental freedoms.

If you don't have the right measurements and you don't have the right effectiveness, that money doesn't necessarily produce your national goals.

Pakistan is important. Important to us, important to the region and the world.

The question is, Are we going to have a strategy and metrics of benchmarks by which we can judge that continuing to use billions of dollars of the Federal taxpayer money is going to achieve our goal?

But that Main Street is still having challenges, is still not getting access to the credit that it seeks.

I always welcome you before the Committee. I do not about coming to ask for money for TARP.

Thank you for your service under incredibly difficult times.

I would defer to the Chair and the Ranking Member to consider it, if it is possible.

I don't believe that--$12 billion later, that we are ignoring or have been ignoring Pakistan.

I think we will do it very quickly, certainly before the end of the month, assuming this authority goes through.

Regulators also should take into account off-balance-sheet assets and conduits as if these risks were on-balance-sheet.

If we have gotten to the point that an institution is 'too big to fail,' haven't we in some respects already failed?

The video game industry is constantly striving for more efficient and effective use of energy among its product lines.

For many years, the State Department has named Iran not only as the world's leading state sponsor of terror, but as the 'central bank for terrorism.'

Do you agree that in order to meet an aggressive national EERS that these barriers to combine heat and power have to be removed?

Unfortunately this seems to be severe regulatory barriers in the form of tariffs and difficulty in interconnecting CHP projects in many States.

I just want to compliment Senator Schumer for putting forth a very good idea and one that I hope we will move forward with.

Do you think it's time for a National Interconnection Standard?

I just read Secretary Clinton's comments in the Post about development assistance in Afghanistan. She said there are so many problems with them that there are--problems of design, problems with staffing, a problem of implementation…

I think we need to take advantage of this opportunity that we've had, which last for decades to really make the fundamental changes that will last for decades to come.

Development is not a subset of diplomacy.

I hope this committee will keep this issue on its agenda until we have the strong development agency we need.

I think many of us have been very troubled by where they went and how they went there.

I stand ready to support President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and the next USAID Administrator in reforming and reshaping USAID in a bold and unprecedented way.