Political Quotes

“Senator Coons, thank you for convening us. I think it is important to restate the progress we have made. I know it has been said before, but frankly not enough attention has been paid to the fact that since implementation day Iran has shipped 12 tons of enriched uranium out of Iran and kept enrichment at that 3.67 level, which is significantly below what is necessary to create a bomb. They filled the core of the Iraq plutonium reactor with concrete, preventing them from producing weapons-grade plutonium. They started to allow the IAEA access to the entire nuclear fuel cycle or uranium enrichment, including their centrifuge production shops and uranium mines and mills. Of course, as has been stated before, the IAEA has been given an unprecedented level of access to the entirety of the supply chain leading up to any future potential development of a nuclear weapon. That is an unprecedented level of access that will require an unprecedented level of support. We are talking about an additional $10.6 million per year that the IAEA is going to need to carry out these oversight responsibilities. The United States puts up a percentage of IAEA's funding, but it is still the minority of funding. One development that we need to guard against are attempts in Congress to undermine this agreement in very quiet, subtle ways.…”