Jim Risch

I believe there is an opportunity. There is a potential change here that could be significant.

It is very important that fundamental freedoms be observed in Tajikistan.

Thanks, everyone who is in attendance, and thank you to our three nominees for agreeing to do this.

I believe the ongoing review of our assistance to the Palestinians, including UNRWA, is no different.

Yes, indeed, there is a national action plan for countering violent extremism in Tajikistan that the government is seeking to implement.

I believe that MOU, along with U.S. partnership on a range of issues, demonstrates the depth and breadth of the U.S. bilateral relationship with Jordan.

Thank you for sharing that with us.

I hope you will carry the message to those governments that this is a matter that is on our radar screen.

And we have also had the unfortunate circumstance that some countries do this informally by simply hiding the individual.

I am a co-sponsor of the bill for helping to streamline the processing for renewable energy.

Nord Stream 2, if built, could affect the economic viability of other potential pipeline and interconnector projects within Europe as they would become less competitive.

This is a project that is badly needed in the area that it is in for the reasons everyone stated with the poverty and everything else that is there.

Most of all, these kinds of stories are just staggering when people go out as entrepreneurs, as people who are going to create wealth and make life better for Americans and they get nothing but beat over the head from their government and…

I have to tell you that your focus and your command of these issues is impressive.

Tim has had a distinguished career in public service and is exceptionally qualified to serve as the Department of the Interior's Assistant Secretary for Water and Science.

I rise today to introduce the Blackrock Land Exchange Act of 2017. The legislation supports a mutually beneficial effort between the Bureau of Land Management and the J.R. Simplot Company in Idaho that began over 20 years ago. Simplot…

thank you. I rise to speak about the tax reform issue and the tax reform effort that is front and center for this Congress and for all Americans. Particularly, I want to point out the fact that Congress has not undertaken this difficult…

Every single word that has been uttered here this morning in this hearing is going to be analyzed in Pyongyang.

This talk about lawyers and this talk about standards and proportionality and all the other things that we all talk about is not a discussion that is going to take place in the heat of battle in today's world.

these are pragmatic decisions that have to be made and will be made, and they are not going to be clouded by arguments of an army of lawyers.

this is much broader than that and is, as you say, divisive--aimed at divisiveness, or aimed at discord?

the Russians are doing what they've done all along, long before your technology even existed, and that is trying to sow discord.

I always look at something from an objective standpoint--``What is their objective? What are they trying to accomplish?''

This is a lot deeper than just the elections.

The U.S. isn't the only country suffering from this.