Gerry Connolly actually said...

"We have to look at this relationship clear-eyed. We have interests; they have interests. But it is anything but a perfect or stable relationship."

"I take enormous exception to my colleague from Virginia asserting that maybe this administration will get serious about sanctions when the previous one did not."

"Now is the opportunity to get back on the saddle here because we do have an opportunity to further exacerbate those financial tensions for Hezbollah."

"This is a test of a new administration, whether its close ties to Russia can be put to our advantage in terms of curbing the behavior of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard."