The message for me coming out of the election was that folks in our States want us to work together, they want us to make progress on real issues and they want us to strengthen the economic recovery.

What Mike Enzi likes to say, he has this 80-20 rule. He says, we agree on 80 percent of the stuff, we disagree on 20 percent of the stuff.

As part of a comprehensive solution, we will require that Iran dismantle a significant portion of its nuclear infrastructure related to uranium enrichment.

We have to work together to find ways to strengthen the administration's ability to push back against Iran's continuing bad behavior.

Iran is a revolutionary power with hegemonic aspirations.

We need to do this with Iran, as well.

No nuclear agreement is better than one that might push back by some months Iran's ability to break out a weapons capability.

Any agreement is based upon our willingness to use military force to stop Iran from trying to achieve a breakout capability.

Thank you, Chairman Corker and Ranking Member Cardin, for holding not just this hearing but a whole series of very valuable hearings.

The inspection regime is only as strong as the political support for it.

So what we have heard, I think, from Senators on both sides of the aisle in these hearings is that distrust but verify is probably a better watchword for our negotiations with them.

As someone who narrowly agreed to support the agreement, characterizing it as the least bad option before us at the time.

if it is a problem that Iran is 2 months away from a nuclear weapon today, I do not know how we can be comfortable with an agreement that allows them to be in that position in 10, 12, or 15 years.

I agree with you that a lack of clarity on exactly how U.N. sanctions would be restored... is one of the, I think, key unresolved questions about snapback for the U.N. sanctions.

I think this is critical for the Foreign Relations Committee, its members, and the rest of the Senate, to be well-informed.

the core issue is political. As the DNI says, Iran's nuclear future is a political decision, not a technical one.

having more thorough, more broad knowledge of the prior military dimensions... are critical.

the purpose of that strong bipartisan vote and enactment by Congress was to ensure that Congress has the opportunity to weigh in.