Jim Risch

No-one's exempt. I come from a State that's a lot smaller, Idaho.

Everybody wants to do something. Everybody wants a new AUMF, and the parties on both sides are working, I really believe, in good faith.

we want to make life better for our constituents and Americans

Notwithstanding what you hear about what Congress does not do, we do occasionally do something.

And we do it together, particularly on this Committee.

I know everybody is having a good time and networking and moving the enterprise forward but we really should get started.

the Federal Government does not always do things exactly the way they should.

Please get me off this tether of fossil fuels

I think Palestinians need to be told this has to stop.

As long as Americans are willing to write checks over there for those people, things are not going to change.

To me, this legislation is an absolute no-brainer. I would go much further than this.

I do not know how you explain to the American people that we are paying utility bills for people in the West Bank when people in America cannot pay their utility bills.

I want to associate myself with the remarks from my distinguished colleague and close personal friend, Senator Crapo, and join him in urging our fellow Senators to quickly confirm Judge Nye. As pointed out by Senator Crapo, this will be…

You know, people sense weakness. You know, cut it all. Cut every last penny of it.

If the Knesset cannot even withhold the tax money, some amount of money equivalent to what the payments are, my goodness, what kind of message are we sending?

You keep funding people who commit terrorism, you will get more of it.

I appreciate that and let me ask you this. Do you think it's more likely that that would come--assuming that North Korea had nuclear weapons that they could deliver, is it more likely that it would come from Russia or from North Korea?

Back to my last question, you would agree with me that the Russians have taken no active measures in an American election while Donald Trump has been President? Is that a fair statement?

We do know that the Russians took active measures in the last presidential election?

I believe such laws become necessary.

I think there's a lot of us, with what we hear about what's going on in North Korea and some of our other adversaries, that Russia certainly is a dangerous adversary, but when you have someone running a country like Kim Jong Un and with…

I would like the political marketplace to regulate itself.

I think that President Obama, with the benefit of hindsight, should have acted more resolutely, quickly, to be transparent with the American people.

The American people in my judgment deserved to know what was happening clearly.

I think all of this really needs to be drilled down a little bit further, because it seems to me, with this experience, there's probably some pretty good information where you could put a firewall in place to stop it, or at least minimize…