Bob Menendez

Did verbal agreements get entered into, and if so, what are they?

It was written in a way to be comprehensive enough to deal with all of Russia's malign activities.

Given the reality of Russia's current nuclear capacity, we must collectively use every diplomatic tool in our arsenal, economic, political, and military, to achieve our goals.

Constraining the proliferation of nuclear weapons must be a core component of our strategy.

The American people, the elected officials in this body, and members of the President's own administration hear more from Russian officials about alleged agreements that the President is making about critical national security issues.

Arms control efforts to reduce the risk of nuclear war and limit Russia's nuclear forces are vital for maintaining and strengthening U.S. national security.

The exacerbating problem is we have an administration that will not even use rhetoric in an appropriate way to push back.

It seems to me that we need to have him understand that the calculation is wrong.

I would just like to see us be far more forward leaning in response to the attacks that we have received.

It falls squarely within the ambit.

So it seems to me that the designation that we gave North Korea in this regard was appropriate.

We had a choice to say those who are willing and want to move to a liberal democracy, respect for human rights, and rule of law, you are welcome to join us.

We have not been responsive enough to the attacks that we have received as a country, and in any other iteration, we would clearly consider it an act of war.

Who is going to fight someone who buys your oil? Obviously, the Russians have done it to the Ukraine and others.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity.

If you believe that democracy and markets are valuable to the United States--and I believe they are--well, then we should partner with the Europeans, the EU, not just promoting them in Europe but promoting them globally.

I was disturbed but not surprised to read in your testimony that the President is seen by many European leaders as more committed to authoritarian leaders than democratic ones.

The President Trump's repeated public doubts about NATO have a highly negative impact on Europe.

NATO has secured peace in Europe since 1949 and has been critical to U.S. efforts in places outside of NATO like Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

It just seems counterintuitive that we are trying to affect the Russian economy, and then we are trying to create business ties.

I thought it was our policy to put economic pressure on the Kremlin to stop attacking our elections, its illegal occupation of Ukraine, its war crimes in Syria.

That is why Russia is not part of the G7 today.

You do not become an oligarch in Russia unless Putin makes you one, right?

The moral case for such a designation is sound, designation of Russia as a state sponsor of terror.

We need to deter the Russian Federation from undermining our elections, and continuing to violate the international order.