Karen Bass actually said...

"I always use this committee and I especially talk about your leadership, as over these years you have always led this committee in a bipartisan way and you will be missed."

"The purpose of our sanctions, you know, again, is to get these governments to properly observe human rights and that would be in the case of both Iran and Sudan."

"I want to know, given that we have been considering changing our policy toward Sudan if that is a leverage point, number one, to save her life, but where we are with sanctions toward Iran."

"I think we certainly have a lot of leverage right now and we need to figure out how to step that up as well."