Bob Menendez

Conditionality on human rights needs to remain a necessary component of U.S. support to Colombia.

Has our engagement with Colombia in these priorities produced positive results that directly promote the security and prosperity of the United States?

An invasion is an invasion of Ukraine. It is not usurpation, it is an invasion.

I, for one, am of the view that the conditionality is important here to achieve what I believe are mutual goals.

I think Ambassador Haley gets it right. She called the Maduro Government illegitimate, and it is illegitimate.

I know that you and I both have a keen interest in the implementation of the peace accords in Colombia and how they impact overall security and stability in our hemisphere.

I deeply believe that there are individuals in the Venezuelan Government today, sanctioned and unsanctioned, who will one day be indicted or have been indicted, and I believe will one day be extradited to the United States and face charges…

Applied robustly, the peace accord represents an historic opportunity to extend state presence and democratic institutions throughout Colombia's territory, with corresponding peace dividends, security, stability, counter-narcotics…

I have a problem in U.S. taxpayer money continuing to flow to Colombia if extradition is not going to be seriously dealt with.

Better results than 2016 is a low threshold.

A Constituent Assembly that, at the end of the day, we do not recognize that is flawed is not only flawed, it is illegitimate.

Do you believe it is in our interest to fund foreign assistance programs that support democracy and human rights programming?

The illegitimacy of a dictatorship, which now the administration has recognized that the Maduro Government is a dictatorship, something I applaud, is an illegitimate government.

Many consider the Colombia peace accords one of the greatest achievements in the region in recent memory, providing the opportunity to end the region's longest war and bring stability and prosperity to the entire country.

I do not agree with the policy of fracking if it is not in full compliance with applicable laws.

I have no reason to doubt these reports.

Many people would see your view for Proposition 8 as support for a policy of discrimination.

Where do you rank the efforts to make sure that narcotics trafficking, much of which comes through the Caribbean, is a priority of your ambassadorship, should you be confirmed?

You are not suggesting that the Bahamians are going to pose a South China Sea challenge to us, are they?

I will do everything I possibly can to continue to promote democracy and the closeness, the close ties between the Bahamian Government, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and also the United States.

The Bahamas may be a small island, but it is part of our Caribbean initiatives.

I understand that there are some significant problems with your paperwork, including discrepancies and incomplete answers that did not fully align with your Office of Government Ethics paperwork and your FEC filing.

I cannot understand nominees who must understand that based upon the positions they have been nominated to and positions they have taken in the past that one does not come prepared to reconcile--or try to reconcile those views.

New Jersey was particularly hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, and it continues to have the highest foreclosure rate in the Nation.

I hope my colleagues are acutely aware of the consolidation of community banks.