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."

"I would hope you would become a spokesman within the administration about how damaging that that kind of a declaration would be, a sole purpose declaration."

"I think the Congress and the executive branch have every right to continue to deepen our security cooperation, to expand our arms provisions to Taiwan."

"I would urge that you communicate in the strongest terms to the administration the concern that our allies in the region have with this policy."