Jim Risch actually said...

"this is really, really simple. You come up here with a bill, and you say, This is what we want to do."

"It is ultra vires. It raises serious separation-of-powers issues."

"we really, really believe that the legislative branch is in charge of legislating and that you guys are in charge of executing what the legislative branch legislates."

"We, as the United States, need a policy that is very clear that we will do everything we can to cut off the sources of Assad's finances and also the flow of weapons and to do everything we can to isol..."