Jim Risch

We do not move much faster up here.

That actually sounds like an excellent idea, but the question I have is could that be done by rule and regulation as opposed to legislation, or is the legislation going to have to be revisited?

on behalf of myself and Senator Rubio, from the great State of Florida, I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from New Mexico.

I guess I do not argue that that is what they believe. I think they believed that long before that initiative ever happened.

the path forward was not sitting at the table and talking your differences out, but rather that military force is the way you accomplish what you are trying to do.

Would you agree with me that in that part of the world, that is not unique to Libya or Qadhafi?

But in any event, Dr. Wehrey, do you have any comment on that?

If you do not fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.

What can the United States do to promote a more vigorous democracy, not confined just to a single family?

We are seeing some open-source reporting that mustard gas is being used in Syria.

We think it is very important that Kyrgyzstan have the space to make its own decisions about its political autonomy, about its economic linkages, about the future of the country.

What is happening today? Is that movement increasing? Is it decreasing? Has it leveled off?

Thank you all for coming. This Subcommittee on Near East, South and Central Asia of the Foreign Relations Committee will come to order.

I fully appreciate that the person in question recused himself from the actual vote on something, but, you know, again, the appearance is very difficult to shake under these circumstances.

even though we might disagree with a country on a whole host of issues, sometimes we can find common cause on an issue.

if the United States was involved with a partner that was doing this sort of thing, I mean, we would wash our hands of it very quickly, or stop it, one or the other.

I worry most about nonstate actors, and I hope we can put that genie back in the bottle and that we are not seeing a new era now of chemical terrorism.

The last thing any of us wants, and most especially myself, is for Syria to hold itself out as a member in good standing of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

I am not going to be as generous as you are to the Russians.

We all know that Libya is attempting to form a government.

we, as Americans, as we go around the world, try to persuade people that the only way society can prosper is if, indeed, you get rid of corruption and you get rid of any type of undue influence, and, for that matter, the appearance of it.

Given the lack of moral turpitude of the people who are doing this in Syria, I would say that I am not very optimistic that some type of moral obligation would drive their decisionmaking.

The problem here is very, very political, and I do not mean republican versus democrat.

I am just tired of talking about this, you know? We all know what the problem is.

What it does so simply, it tells the Forest Service that you should be using your prevention money for prevention instead of putting the fire out.