I would like to echo the ranking member's gratitude for the substantive and generally nonpartisan approach of these hearings.

Well, it's important generally because, you know, as an elected official, as a politician, I'll be the first to say, some times the media gets it wrong, some times you don't feel fairly treated. But, you know, a free press that is asking…

The premise was that Dodd-Frank regulations were harming capital markets. And if you look at capital markets, actually, there is not much data to support that.

No campaign takes help from a hostile foreign power.

Well, it turns out there was collusion. And it wasn't by some random person in Ohio. It was by the president's son.

I strongly support--I just don't believe that FDIC-supported institutions should be making proprietary bets.

I have the very best intelligence agencies in the world. They caught you red handed. Here is the evidence, if you ever do this again or think about this again, at a time and place of my choosing, I will put you in a world of hurt.

I would hope that perhaps Secretary Tillerson, because this is a matter of such importance to our national security and to the integrity of our system, I would hope that maybe he would come before one of the committees of Congress and…

I am not inclined to believe the Russian is just about ever but I am worried that we didn't get the point across in the way that it is going to -- hopefully preserve the integrity of our elections going forward.

What you saw today was just a dog's breakfast of uncertainty and lack of charity about what happened.

I actually am glad that the meeting occurred. I'm glad that the President was clear on Article V.

He did say that. And by the way, he, very specifically, articulated our support for Article 5 of the NATO Treaty.

I don't understand how the United States president can protect the country if he's not willing to sit down with Vladimir Putin and look him in the eye and say, I know you did this. It will stop.

He should move on and he should speak in very, very clear tones about what happened.

If I were a Russian intelligence boss, I would be doing all I could to get folks over here.

It's a contradiction of something that we know to be true.

I rise this morning because yesterday the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan organization that we rely on in this Chamber for truth, told us that the Senate healthcare bill--so- called healthcare bill--will throw 22 million…

Yes. No, I absolutely agree with that. And look, what the President said that there was some sort of collusion or that President Obama did nothing is absolute nonsense.

Vladamir Putin is like your school yard bully. He is not going to -- he is not going to change his behavior until he gets knocked down.

The president demanding loyalty asking that, you know, just let this -- let Flynn off. That is something that, you know, you wouldn't except in, you know, Bolivia of 1934.

It almost doesn't matter what Jim Comey says tomorrow. Already the effort has started to damage the integrity and the credibility of Jim Comey.

The RNC's explanation is the best interest of the country was not one that we've heard until today.

We're talking about a man who could wake up in two hours or in three hours and start a nuclear war, who controls -- you know, whose words send armies marching and, you know, change markets.

The remedy, of course, is removal from office. And that's where all of a sudden the politics become as or more important than the law.

Yeah. And to be fair to the president, you know, a lot of us read that in the president's firing statement of Jim Comey and we said, 'That doesn't sound right.'