due to family commitments in Florida, I was unable to vote on the confirmation of Pamela Harris to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Had I been present, I would have voted against Ms. Harris's confirmation. The Senate has few…

The alternative--permitting Iran a large nuclear infrastructure--strikes me as imprudent and unlikely to succeed in the face of Iranian determination to advance its nuclear weapons capability.

This entire thing is a disaster. It is not just an embarrassing diplomatic failure; this is a dangerous national security failure.

They wanted to achieve the maximum amount of sanctions relief that they could get without having to agree to any irreversible concessions on their nuclear program.

I think that that is incredibly naive.

Congress should insist that nuclear facilities built in violation of Iran's NPT obligations be dismantled; this is important not only for regional stability, but for the integrity of the nonproliferation regime globally.

They are a state sponsor of terrorism. There is no nation on Earth that uses terrorism more than they do as an element of statecraft.

I just think the danger here is quite frank.

What has been the delay in issuing that interim final rule?

We wanted to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. That was our hope.

Thank you for being here today and being a part of this and all the work that went into getting us to this point.

The Gulf Coast deserves our attention and our resources.