Jim Risch

You're confident that you got where you wanted to go when you set out to make this investigation?

Our thoughts and prayers are with our colleagues who were injured in this morning's horrific attack.

I think the division has kind of disappeared here.

this is not a partisan issue. This is a bipartisan issue, and Senator Shaheen and I will be working on that together

If Congress is going to take a serious look at reforming the tax code, we certainly should look at ways it can be simplified.

Tax compliance costs are 67 percent higher for small businesses than they are for big businesses.

I understand that the memo went out to all the Democrats that they are supposed to raise health care.

I saw confusion. I saw a real troubling view from their point of view during the last 8 years, and it has changed markedly since those two events that nobody ever talks about.

We should have substantially more work on it than doing it in the middle of the night like happened with Obamacare or we are going to wind up with the same mess.

I don't think there's any American who would disagree with the fact that we need to drill down to this, know what happened, get it out in front of the American people, and do what we can to stop it.

America needs more like you, and we really appreciate it.

Those of us that work in the intelligence community, it didn't come as a surprise.

So again, so the American people can understand this, that report by the New York Times was not true.

This is as good as it gets.

I think you have cleared up substantially your direct testimony that you have never been pressured by anyone, including the President of the United States, to do something illegal, immoral, or anything else.

I think all three of these nominees we have in front of us are highly qualified people, and I think the President should be commended for his choices in these areas.

I am particularly grateful to have Mr. Brouillette where he is. He has, on a very parochial basis, I know you would never do this, Madam Chairman, but on a very parochial basis, he has an in-depth understanding of what happens at the Idaho…

I ask unanimous consent that following the remarks of Senator Murphy, there be 20 minutes of postcloture time remaining on the Lighthizer nomination, equally divided between the chairman and ranking member of the Finance Committee; that…

Admiral, thank you so much for coming today, and submitting yourself to what is going to be a rigorous process.

the purpose of the hearing this morning is to have a hearing on the appointment by President Trump of the Deputy Administrator to the Small Business Administration.

the current Administration's hitting the ground running during the first 100 days as far as their engagement on intelligence matters

The Committee will come to order, and thank you all for coming today.

And the fact that the President has pulled the trigger twice as he has in the first 100 days, and done it in a fashion that didn't start a world war, and was watched by both our friends and our enemies, has made a significant and a huge…

One of the issues I am working on... is an issue of addressing small businesses and their access to Federal contracting opportunities.

I would take issue though, as far as your recommendation, if we have an infrastructure bill coming.