We are going to give Iran access not just to the $150 billion signing bonus, but the hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of that 10 or 15 years.

And we pay 25 percent of the costs to the IAEA as I understand it. Is that correct?

I want to make sure we are getting as much oversight out of Congress as possible, so if there is cheating going on, we can detect it as soon as possible.

I think it is a great example of how the Iranians continue to test the JCPOA and that, in the face of non-enforcement, the Iranians will know that they have a green light to continue to push at the international community and see what they…

We know that. In your opening statement, Mr. Nephew, you state in there that the risk of them cheating is not zero.

I did not vote for the deal either, and I share some of the eloquently expressed concerns of Senator Risch.

I am glad you all took the time you did to expand on it, because my big concern is the Iranians will cheat.

If my math is right, that is a number of tons of nuclear-enriched material.

The emotional relief for those 43 surviving hostages of that ordeal is not expressible in words.

We want to make sure we never revisit that chapter in history.

what Senator Menendez has said he wants to do would probably be the appropriate thing for the Congress to do.

We finally got a hold of some sanctions money in the Paribas settlement, which the Department of Justice has, which is the money we are compensating those hostages from.

This particular agreement, as I understand it, and you can correct me if I am wrong, the IAEA is the inspector.

I think ultimately they will need to come back. They are the ones that need an agreement.

Why in a hearing based on nuclear weapons and prohibiting the Iranians from getting a nuclear weapon would we waive a sanction at some point in time in the future on exporting conventional arms?

there should be, because we need to reclaim some of the equality we ought to have in standing in this agreement once it is signed.

Yesterday afternoon, the surviving hostages from the American embassy in Iran learned that this Congress will compensate for them in the omnibus bill we will take up later on this week.

We have raised and elevated their stature and their position.