WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Trump administration's military operation in Venezuela and plans to control the country going forward. Murphy grilled Rubio on the lack of progress towards a democratic transition while enabling the regime's corruption, and enriching the president's friends and donors in the oil industry.
Murphy emphasized Trump's large-scale, long-term plans to run Venezuela indefinitely are unlikely to succeed: "I think the scope of the project that you are undertaking in Venezuela is without precedent. You are ta...