Cory Gardner

How long will it take for Iran to recoup $150 billion in lost Iran revenues once sanctions are lifted?

It is good to see the other Senator Murkowski on this side of the dais, so welcome to the Committee, Senator Murkowski.

They are going to need a lot of assistance and help from friends like the United States of America to help them.

The offensives in Shan and Kachin states, which have actually escalated since Election Day, need to be stopped immediately.

The State Department is obviously aware of this. Have you seen any actions that they have taken so far? Or do they need a little push on this?

The situation of the Rohingya in Rakhine state is just deplorable. It continues to deteriorate.

I think that these election results are a clear repudiation of the military's rule in Burma for the past 60 years.

This hearing will come to order. We are doing something entirely unique in the Senate, and that is actually starting on time and maybe even a little early.

Thank you. Obviously, as we discussed prior to the hearing, we talked about the concern throughout the region of Paris-type terrorist acts spreading to places around the world, including Southeast Asia.

I would like to see us have very clear demands with the lame-duck government over the next 4 months that they immediately release all political prisoners, including those awaiting trial and have yet to be sentenced.

The USDP's despicable effort to use anti-Muslim sentiment as a political weapon seems to have backfired in the near term.

We keep telling them that you cannot keep delaying that date indefinitely because your people will not accept it over time.

You cannot have a constitution written that is effective at that point, can you?

We need to ensure that no irreversible decisions are made by now the lame-duck Parliament.

Success in Indonesia, hopefully the beginning of success in Burma, that is what we need to be thinking about.

I do not think we can give the union election commission a passing grade... without credible investigations.

I guess there is a certain hope that if it is not truly a democratic piece of paper, the people will vote against it.

We think this is a significant step forward.

We continue to be concerned about the number of Rohingya who remain in camps.

I think we do have to include the human rights conditions and the acts in North Korea as part of these discussions.

But to do so, we have to be prepared for the aftermath.

In my conversations last month in both Japan and South Korea, talking to the foreign ministry in Japan and to President Park in Seoul, talking about the importance of a strong trilateral relationship...

Does it behoove us to have at least five-party talks where we are all getting together finally and talking about North Korea?

If they decide they want hard currency so much and they have got enough fissile material with a highly enriched uranium program, they ought to supplement their plutonium program, and they become a source of that material for another…

We have not found the formula that deters the North Koreans from expanding their weapons programs.