Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was kept in the dark while the Obama Administration secretly negotiated normalizing relations with Cuba over the past year.

The Cuban-American Senator discussed the issue on State of the Union with Dana Bash on CNN this past weekend.

Asked by Bash how "furious" he was when he heard about the plan that had been hatched without his knowledge, Menendez said, "It's less about me and whatever lack of information I was given as someone who is both chairman of the committee and one of the few Cuban Americans in the Senate and on the Democratic side..."

Menedez went on to slam the agreement, not just over its secrecy but over the fact that the US got nothing in return from the Castro regime:

“So we subverted, in my view, the standards that are important for us to uphold globally in a way that we could have -- if you're going to make a deal with the regime, then get something for it. But at the end of the day, they got absolutely nothing for giving up everything that the Castro regime wants to see and has lobbied for.”

So, it appears, President Obama's desire to subvert Congress' role in governing the nation is not exclusive to a Republican majority.

H/T: RCP