you can't have a huge infrastructure supporting a reduced force.

Iranians are owed the rights, freedom and dignity that we cherish here as the bedrocks of our Nation.

We must ensure that we do everything we possibly can to show that diplomacy has or has not worked.

We will give diplomacy every chance to succeed because it is the only way to maintain international support for whatever options we must take, but it cannot go on forever, and ultimately the onus is on Iran.

Congress and this administration have stood side by side in dealing with this threat to our security and to global security.

We take no sides in the election, but we know that the desires and aspirations of the Iranian people must start with free, fair and transparent elections.

We are not going to back down until those Americans are home safe and sound.

I am convinced that President Obama is serious when he says Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon on his watch.

Your nuclear weapons program is not necessary, nor will it succeed. The United States will not allow this to happen.

we need to make that bill as tough as possible, and let us go into conference with the Senate with the strongest possible bill.

I hope that today's hearing increases awareness among our colleagues and leads to a truthful accounting of that fatal evening.

I commend Chairman Graves for convening this hearing to discuss how this bill affects the small businesses of America.

I would like to focus my questions on hate crimes and racial profiling.

I truly appreciate that. And I would also like to ask about racial profiling.

I was outraged to hear that Sysco reported that 13,000 of its customers got demands from patent trolls.

Ultimately, though, you don't need legislation to get a bailout.

We ought to break up those who are too-big-to-fail.

We sometimes speak a different language than those who favor bailouts, should deal with translation.