Jim Risch

If you are going to go to war, you want to go to war with China over the South China Sea, you better lay the predicate.

if we give up one scintilla of sovereignty that this country has fought, has bled for, have given up our treasure, and the best that America has, I can't vote for it.

You are going to find a gaggle of judges tripping over each other to force the EPA ... to say you shall.

That is just not true.

I couldn't agree with you more that the language is black and white.

I always enjoy our conversations and I look forward to the potential to have one on this very important subject, sir.

Why oh why oh why, as we as Americans, give up our taxing authority, handing money over to the United Nations...

the language in this treaty that worries us is particularly that that deals with environmental issues and the ability of this Convention to enforce that with signatories of the treaty.

the United States is not asserting leadership by joining the Convention

You raise a legitimate concern.

Nothing wrong with that.

That is going to be the law of the land if we accede to this treaty.

What I am suggesting is this has been an abject failure for the members who have signed this and who have been members for years and years and years.

for you to come here and tell us that we cannot resolve a border dispute with Canada because we are not a member of this Law of the Sea Treaty really does that.

I have some deep-seated reservations on that basis.

Whether we are in, or not in, should not make any difference whatsoever.

I would greatly disagree with that reading of it.

the down-side risks for us seem much greater than that potential benefit that we might have that is clearly theoretical, not working now.

I don't believe that it might. I believe it will.

we are by far the largest emitters of carbon, and that is an issue around the world.

I have absolute confidence in the American people.

We are very nervous about this and have a difficult time bringing the two ends together.

A strong commitment to the requirements for joining is another issue that certainly needs to be underscored.

the vast majority of members of the Senate, of Congress perhaps, could agree upon the desirability of a policy that would allow foreign-born but U.S. educated, highly trained individuals to remain in the United States

Currently, entrepreneurship is so important. We all know that. It is where jobs are created.