Dana Rohrabacher

Is there something that we can do to make the applied go from the basic to the applied and incentivize the private sector to invest money in the applied scientific approach to this issue?

Let me just note I believe that our President is doing a terrific job. I think that the last Presidents of the United States have left us an incredibly dangerous situation, and this President is trying to deal with it with strength and…

The people of Iran are not our enemies. It is the mullah regime.

Let me just see if I can ask a yes or no question. Is Iran in compliance with the treaty? Just yes or no, down the line.

We need leadership here. We can't wait for more than 99 percent certainty before we act.

I think that Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel, they have done a good job in making sure that this issue is high on our priority.

And we have to let good people know all over the world, whatever their religion is, that we are on the side of ordinary people and their rights to live decent lives without being murdered and raped and the type of things that these poor…

The American people do have responsibility toward their fellow human beings in cases of emergency and crisis.

I was a big supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi. We are expecting more from her than what is happening.

This has got to stop. And I don't think we should look at this just as the attack on these people, which is unacceptable, but we should look at it as an example of the behavior of the Burmese Government and hold them accountable.

So is it possible that we could, if we could get our relations back together again as they were a few years ago, we might have--this could be some area of cooperation between Russia and the United States in providing this material and…

I hope by then perhaps we will have not just Russia but other international partners that could work with us on this so the total cost isn't the American taxpayer.

But over in perhaps in Russia----

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and we get a great education here.

And it has to be produced. This is something--you have leftover plutonium from nuclear power plants but that plutonium needs to be worked on and produced through another process.

Okay, but none of that comes directly from leftover material from nuclear power plants?

Do you think--did the fact that we have freed up over a $100 billion to this regime--has that increased at all the level of activity in these other areas that seem to be in turmoil?

Doesn't it behove us not to just give--free up $100 billion for the regime that oppresses its people, but instead to try to help those interest--those various nationality groups that don't like the mullahs?

If we have something go crazy with the sun, I understand it could knock out all of our grid.

I just think that we have not given serious attention to this.

I know I visited them and I visited Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest.

Only a respect for human rights by that country as a whole with all of these people is going to bring about, you know, any type of peace or an end to this.

I have been following the events in this part of the world for a number of decades, but I will have to admit that I have a very shallow information base.

I think it would have been interesting to hear an interaction and charges and refutations.

I, too, am disappointed that she has not spoken up.