Brad Sherman

This is a moment for Congress to do its job, to assert its authority as set forth by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution and to be responsible before we send men and women into harm's way.

This is a very reasonable proposal. It says we should not invade Venezuela.

To say for that reason we should leave all decisionmaking about matters of life and death to this administration, I think that goes a little too far.

There is no more bipartisan committee in Congress than this one.

It is simply absurd for the administration to say yes, Congress has a role with regard to nuclear cooperation agreements

The administration has issued seven licenses under Part 810 to allow the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia

The bills before us today will make our system fair.

We have renounced the Paris climate change talks. We have announced that we won't do our agreed share.

The Wise Honest is currently seized and it is in Indonesian waters right now.

I mean, when they purport that this is Russian coal, are they basically claiming that this is coal being shipped out of Russian ports on the Atlantic or on the Pacific?

So, the coal has to be transported all the way to Indonesia, and then, comes back to South Korea----

That, sir, sounds like an eminently sensible suggestion.

When it comes to material useful for creating fissile material, North Korea is an importer, but not an exporter?

Has the Donald Trump rapprochement with Kim Jong-un... changed the attitude of China, Russia, and the big shipping companies to whether they really have to abide by the sanctions?

Because this Congress could pass a law saying no bank can do business in the United States unless they put this in all their contracts.

China has four of the largest banks in the world by assets

If you could bring to the attention of the committee those countries where you have asked a specific question and not gotten an answer, we can amplify your request

We will do whatever we can to hold the State Department accountable

This body has--and I mean the Foreign Affairs Committee has--been troubled by the administration's lack of transparency to Congress.

I need think that, if you want a better outcome, you need better sanctions.

I think that we should be willing to accept a highly intrusive verification system that would assure us that North Korea was not making any more weapons.

I believe that North Korea has conclusively demonstrated that it is not under enough pressure to agree to a deal acceptable to the United States.

After hearing this proposal, President Trump rejected it, and for perhaps the first time in my career, I made the statement, 'Donald Trump is right.'

If I can interrupt you?

If Saudi Arabia is hell-bent on developing a nuclear program that is uncontrolled and designed to make them a nuclear State, or a possible nuclear State, we will treat them as an enemy?