Jim Risch actually said...

"If we want to exercise full oversight of the State Department, which is the charge of this committee, we must regularly and consistently authorize the State Department."

"Getting the State Department to do the basics--provide witnesses for hearings, feedback on legislation, and updates before issues hit the news--is extremely difficult without authorizing bills."

"If this gets in the hands of the Taliban, I have got serious reservations whether it is going to go to taking care of women and girls to go to school and that sort of thing."

"this is not a partisan issue by any stretch of the imagination. This is a bipartisan issue"