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I couldn't agree with you more that the language is black and white.

The language in this treaty that worries us is particularly that that deals with environmental issues and the ability of this Convention to enforce that with signatories of the treaty.

If you are going to go to war, you want to go to war with China over the South China Sea, you better lay the predicate.

That is just not true.

The down-side risks for us seem much greater than that potential benefit that we might have that is clearly theoretical, not working now.

What I am suggesting is this has been an abject failure for the members who have signed this and who have been members for years and years and years.

I always enjoy our conversations and I look forward to the potential to have one on this very important subject, sir.

I would say that most people in America do not realize what a mess that the South China Sea is in.

Nothing wrong with that.

I find very little comfort in taking this seat, as Secretary Panetta talks about, in a group of 160 countries, most of whom don't like us, many of whom hate us.

I have some deep-seated reservations on that basis.

If we give up one scintilla of sovereignty that this country has fought, has bled for, have given up our treasure, and the best that America has, I can't vote for it.

Why oh why oh why, as we as Americans, give up our taxing authority, handing money over to the United Nations...

I urge you, Mike Simpson, coming from a state that prides its agricultural products and family built ranches, to do everything to protect organic, small producers, and the choice of the American people to eat healthy.

We want USA farm policies to rise up to the best in the world. The best is very safe and healthy and rooted in our strict certified organic farms standards such as California Certified Organic and Oregon Good Tilth certified organic farm…

Throughout my time in the Senate, I have had the extraordinary opportunity to work with Vice Chairman Baptiste on many pertinent issues that directly affect the Federal trust responsibility.

I want to commend him for his leadership both to the Tribe and to the State of Idaho and, frankly, to the Nation as his presence here indicates.

I appreciate your leadership and the leadership of Senator Barrasso.