Bob Menendez

The latest conventional arms transfer policy, unfortunately, took out the specific reference to human rights record of state recipients of U.S. security assistance.

Recently, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service issued guidelines that will discourage many bona fide trafficking victims from applying for T visas.

I will continue to hold nominees until I can get a response.

The administration has made clear to the DRC Government and the DRC's electoral commission, CENI, that the U.S. Government stands ready to support a process that is credible, inclusive, and constitutional.

So I hope you will do that.

I have spent decades working to assure the human rights and provide humanitarian assistance to refugees and civilians affected by war and violent conflict.

Do you agree with the President that the United States is to blame for the current state of U.S.-Russia relations?

I support that pilot program. I think we need to look at where we can get talent, and grow that talent within the Department.

Venezuela civilians are suffering, they face acute shortages just to stay alive, severe shortages of food and medicine, deep political crisis, human rights abuses, using security forces to crush opposition.

It is almost forced labor. They get sent abroad to places like Venezuela.

We need some responses on the Cuba sonic attack briefing that I have asked for.

Will you come before the committee for full public hearings on the--any restructuring of State or USAID, if major changes are proposed, prior to make those changes?

We want to work with you to fill positions, but we need honest--somebody needs to do some vetting, here, before they get to us.

I hope that you will take the discussion that the Chairman and I had, back--reaffirming to the Secretary what I told him personally.

I am troubled that political appointees at the Department of State have sought to sideline career officials based on political loyalty.

I am not going to rubberstamp nominees who, in the process of their simple presentation to the committee, cannot be forthcoming and transparent.

I take a backseat to no one on pressing this administration on some of the worst things that I have seen happen in public as it relates to our country.

I will take backseat to no one in the United States Senate on challenging what happened at NATO, what happened at Helsinki.

Americans and the members of this committee deserve to know what the President and foreign autocrats are agreeing to behind closed doors.

We cannot abdicate our duties. Senators on both sides of the aisle must immediately demand upon open hearings...

The President took an oath of office to serve the American people and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.

The surreal images of a U.S. President undermining his intelligence agencies and capitulating and fawning over a dictator...

I will explain all requirements in U.S. appropriations law for provision of security and other assistance to Sri Lanka.

We can or--and should do a better job in holding our partners accountable, and being frank with them.

The United States is committed to supporting the Kyrgyz Republic's continued democratic development.