Well, I hope we both agree that the only thing that Treasury would be doing appropriately would be trying to enforce the law and making sure that the banks are enforcing these sanctions and not worrying about the atmospherics around that.

And the word 'atmospherics' means what in this context?

I support strong sanctions because I think they are necessary to make this strategy work.

I want to begin by applauding the Administration's recent announcement of new sanctions on any financial institutions that conduct significant transactions in Iranian currency.

We will not permit Iran to have a nuclear weapon, period.

If I were a bad bank, which I am not, let me state for the record, I would not be too worried here.

Thank you, and I want to thank the three witnesses here today for their hard work here.

I believe the Administration has to start sanctioning foreign banks that continue to conduct significant financial transactions or provide significant financial services with the sanctioned Iranian banks.

And was it under a different set of criteria? Why, when it was recovered under initial criteria, was it subsequently put back on a lesser level of listing, but nevertheless a listing level?

I just hate to see us taking money out of hazardous fuel reduction, out of ecosystem restoration, out of... proactive fire management in order to fund the very real need that we need to respond to, an urgent fire situation now.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, one and all, for attending today.

Your point is so important we are going to stay at this until we turn OMB around on the question of how important prevention is and carrying out the FLAME Act.

I want to thank the chairman and ranking member for the timeliness of this.

I want to suggest to the Chairman that we ask the OMB to come and have this kind of a conversation.

I have a question about grizzly bears. Was the grizzly bear at one time--first of all, is it listed as an endangered species?

Do you think that wireless service is a right of every citizen of this country?

The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. McCain), the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), the Senator from Alabama (Mr…

I think we've also got to deliver the same kind of wake-up call on this question of a new focus on prevention.