Jeff Flake

I thank the Senator from Kansas. I yield to the Senator from Utah, the ranking minority member on the Finance Committee.

I rise today to bring attention to the latest installment concerning political targeting by the IRS. Last spring we learned of the IRS's targeting of conservative groups that were applying for 401(c)(4) tax exempt status, thanks to a…

There's no question that we have to be able to demonstrate that this is the right way to go forward.

It seems to me that Senator Barrasso's bill, which I'm happy to cosponsor, would establish a framework for establishing forest treatments.

Unilateral sanctions rarely work.

We need our P5+1 partners, and others, to participate with us here.

If there is no other way to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon than for us to engage in military action, hopefully with others, I am going to vote yes on that.

I have not signed on to the new sanctions bill, here. I believe that, if diplomacy can work, we ought to allow it to work.

One of the most difficult questions I face at home from constituents and others is about this new legislation.

I share the President's concern and his desire to get immigration reform done.

Let me get beyond just platitudes on this. DOJ said in 2012 that you would conduct an assessment of these programs to see where there is overlap and where money perhaps is being wasted.

I am unable to go back to my constituents and say here is the reason that these people with multiple felonies were released into the community.

I share the concerns that some of my colleagues have expressed about some of the, for lack of a better term, extra-constitutional actions taken by the President with regard to the ACA.

What I would suggest is that it is not routine to go for a year, a year and a half, 2 years before you come back with an assessment that you said that you would do with regard to these programs.

I rise today to congratulate my colleagues on the recent introduction of legislation to promote trade promotion authority. Increasing free trade levels the playing field for U.S. companies. We all know that. It increases competition. We…

I would also like to thank Senator McCain for his very kind words in his introductory remarks.

I just have to say for your parents watching at home this webcast, they must be extremely proud, as the whole State is and the country, for, you know, the trailblazing way that you are going through this, to be the first Native American…

I would like to thank--both Senator McCain and myself enlisted a number of people in Arizona to make suggestions and to vet the nominations.

I would like to pay a special thanks to Senator McCain and to Senator Flake for coming together and working with the administration.

This is, like I said, a big chore. These are lifetime appointments. It is an important step, and we want to be thorough in this process, and I believe that we were.

I assume there is a great deal of concern about South Sudan, just the events of the past couple of days and the impact of that.

My concern is being held accountable for somebody who worries about being held accountable after this episode and after the democratic government comes in might be more inclined to try to consolidate his own power.

We regret the death of the French soldiers as well as Congolese soldiers who were killed.

I applaud the United Nations for moving expeditiously and for our representation there for prodding the action that is been taken.

The death of two French troops just in the last couple of weeks, how has that affected the French Government's ability?