James E. Risch: “you are being too tough on ITAR. ITAR is really, really important when you are trying to withhold secrets from Russia…”

the beauty of the Constitution of the United States is that the legislative branch is a co-equal branch of government to the executive branch, and you can actually do stuff.

I think it is incumbent upon us as we go forward to do that, and I commit to you that we will continue to pursue that.

For whatever reason the second branch of government is reluctant to anger other countries or look at the wrath of other countries, and that is just flat wrong.

I was impressed. I really was impressed with the way they were held.