"The idea of punishing a country for not building a wall around its own borders with the barbed wire facing in is absurd."
"Nothing in this bill is an authorization or a direction to the President to send military force into Venezuela."
"If you like the bill, this makes it better. If you do not like the bill, this makes it better."
"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."
"My hope is--and I know that tariffs can be painful on both sides--that you will do what is necessary to get us a trade relationship with China that is not the most pernicious, cancerous, malignant, an..."
"I hope that you will get him more interested in actually appointing rather than thinking about appointing."
"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"