I appreciate all of your testimonies and your lifelong concern for our veteran and for those that have served.

I believe that focusing only on the online version would shortchange our servicemembers of critically important information.

I have to tell you I am very honored to serve as chairman of this subcommittee

I do not want another North Korea.

For years, Congress has played a significant role in authorizing nuclear sanctions on Iran, and I am proud to have taken the lead role in what has been a bipartisan effort to pass a series of sanctions that more than anything else has been…

the time has come for Iran to stop playing games.

I think American security depends significantly on ending uranium enrichment capability.

I believe the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran is one of the most serious threats to our national security interests.

At the end of the day, Iran must make up its mind about what is more important: its nuclear weapons program or the welfare of its people.

We remain deeply skeptical that Iran is committed to making the concessions required to demonstrate to the world that its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful by March 24th.

The President said new sanctions legislation would dramatically undermine the negotiations and our relations with negotiating partners and erode international support for multilateral sanctions.

I have long supported sanctions on Iran, and the benefit of hindsight has only reaffirmed my commitment to these sanctions.

We sometimes have a tendency to see Iran as a monolith, a country devoid of politics. In fact, the politics are intense.

The last thing we need to do is pass a bill out of the U.S. Senate that is not veto-proof.

I know that we have heard many times before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when I was a member and when I chaired it, and even most recently, that, in fact, the world will come to an end, do not have sanctions, you are just going…

If Congress acts to force the President's hand in the next few months by overriding his veto, and if doing so contributes to the collapse of negotiations and our heading down the path toward a military confrontation, Congress, beginning…

This Congress, my two top priorities are going to be public buildings reform and disaster legislation.

I look forward to building on our bipartisan record of accomplishments from last Congress.