Jim Risch actually said...

"It just doesn't make sense."

"In order to follow up on this conversation we're having right now about China, can you give us some indication of what China's expenditures in Pakistan--how they compare to ours?"

"Either you get Iran to stop jamming programming from outside the country, or they lose the opportunity to channel their own programming into the country."

"the sanctions are nothing more than talk, which is aggravating, since at the time we put them in place, the Iranians told us, 'So, what? We're going to continue to do business as usual.'"