the next President of the United States... will really only have one choice: to accept Iran as a nuclear weapons state or to strike.

Congress could in legislation require that to be addressed before U.S. sanctions come off.

So the concern is that if Iran had the same kind of threshold capacity that Japan has, there would be fewer political constraints on them actually producing nuclear weapons.

I fear that if we are reluctant, if this administration is reluctant, to even countenance legislation reaffirming Congress' right to reimpose sanctions or to actually continue sanctions, then we might be reticent to confront Iran in…

I come out against the agreement, but I feel it was a close call.

my concern is that our ability or our desire for Iran to stick to the nuclear side of the agreement might prevent us from challenging Iran or punishing Iran on their nonnuclear behavior.

I have been supportive of these negotiations with Iran, partly because I sense that it would be tough to hold the coalition that we have put together, together for much longer.

Madam President, I thank the Senator from Alaska for yielding, and I wish to thank her also for her hard work on this lands package. These are difficult pieces of legislation to put together. It is particularly living the West, when we…

Fourteen years ago I entered the House of Representatives. I had been elected, but before I took office, I traveled to Washington, and Matt Salmon, the Congressman I was replacing, said: Is there anybody you want to meet? And I said: Tom…

Mr. President, I rise today to discuss title 30 of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, the title of which has become referred to as the lands package. As with most of the items Congress considers, this provision has generated…

I was part of the Gang of Eight process here to write the Senate bill.