James E. Risch

We need a policy where Putin wakes up every morning worried about what we will do.

This Administration consistently and all too often worries about what Putin will do.

Russia under Putin is an autocratic and imperialistic regime and poses an acute threat to the freedom and stability.

We must view Russia not only as a serious adversary in its own right, but also recognize its role in U.S.-China competition.

It appears the White House never really thinks about Russia until Moscow makes a move.

We need to accept that Russia sees this kind of diplomacy as weakness.

Has any consideration been given to getting an envoy or somebody who is specifically focused on Sudan?

I think it is a good discussion of the issues and the problems and how we got here.

History tells us what is going to happen and that is it is going to move towards a full blown civil war.

To be honest with you, I do not see how we move forward with the current situation the way it is in Sudan with two warring generals.

I expect to receive meaningful explanation of why these questions for the record took over 100 days to complete.

This is not a happy occasion. It is disappointing we are here today having this hearing.

We have seen this movie before. As Sudan faces a potentially catastrophic civil war and state collapse...

More should have been done to protect the Sudanese people from the military junta.

Don't do it. We have a legislature in Idaho. Republicans and Democrats. They passed a resolution in both the House and the Senate, unanimously, bipartisan.

This will turn out about 1,000 megawatts of power.

It is 146,000 acres. Do you consider that a fairly significant piece of real estate?

The Federal Government owns two out of every three acres in Idaho--67 percent--so it is always interesting to meet with the person who actually has more to say and more control over our lands than Idahoans do.

We are badly beaten in the Western Hemisphere and our allies are under siege.

When you act in a way that is in pursuit of democracy, rule of law, and human rights there is a benefit.

The problem I have got is this is not our responsibility. This is not the responsibility of the American people.

We are looking forward to that and I got to tell you, there is going to be a lot of pressure from this committee to see what you are going to do about this because this--just saying, well, this happened and we are concerned.

We got to have a plan going forward that is much more reliable than what we have got here.

We keep trying to pound a round peg into a square hole. We keep doing the same thing. We keep getting the same results.

I am really distressed by the fact that we are bumping up money in this area.