Iran's unelected and unaccountable Guardian Council has disqualified hundreds of candidates based on vague criteria.

We have witnessed a process that appears to be unfair, unjust, and unrepresentative of the Iranian people.

His treatment in prison has been outrageous.

Nothing is more critical than preventing Iran from making good on its intentions to obtain a nuclear weapon while trying to end the regime's systematic human rights abuses and ability to project terror.

I want to assure you again that the people of Idaho are extremely committed to obtaining Pastor Abedini's release.

The U.S. capital markets must remain the preferred destination for investors throughout the world.

It is the latter, that we have not found any, sir.

The frustration from foreign regulators over the lack of international coordination on financial reform measures has reached an unprecedented level.

Based on that, and statements not under oath, you have reached the conclusion that there was no political motivation.

The Fed's proposed rules affecting European banks doing business in the United States will duplicate work already done in Europe and create additional cost.

there is a very real and, I think, justified perception among the people of the United States that the Internal Revenue Service is in many real ways the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and the executioner.

It seems that there is an argument being made that there was no political motivation in these actions.

The Indian Trust Asset Reform Act of 2013 would establish a voluntary mechanism for Indian tribes to prioritize the management and funding of their trust assets.

One of them is S. 165, the Indian Trust Asset Reform Act of 2013 introduced by Senator Mike Crapo

We encourage this Committee to collaborate with the Senate Finance Committee and other committees of jurisdiction.

I would like to get with you--and we will do that--and urge you to provide the kind of information as well as legal analysis about the department's processes here that can help us address some of these issues.

The sooner Congress can act, the better it would be in terms of the overall success for both the Enterprises and FHFA.

Unfortunately, there are too many examples of Federal regulations that make it harder to do business and maintain jobs while providing little benefit to their intended purposes.

To individuals, the EPA is often associated with loss of property rights, constraint of Federal freedoms and an ever-increasing financial burden to comply with rules promulgated by faraway officials on local communities.

The EPA has become synonymous with overly burdensome regulation, bureaucratic paralysis and economic decline.

To be sure, there is not an agency that I hear more about from Idahoans in a negative way than the EPA.

I ask unanimous consent to call up amendment No. 318. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the amendment. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Idaho [Mr. Crapo] proposes…

although it has been a couple of years now since we passed the health care law, it is becoming evident to all Americans that there were in fact many new taxes--almost $1 trillion of new taxes--in the health care law. And despite the…

I ask unanimous consent to dispense with further reading of the amendment. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To amend the reconciliation instruction to include…

in the budget that has been put forward, there is a reconciliation instruction for almost $1 trillion of new taxes. On the spending side there is, I think, a relatively modest amount--not adequate--but there is an amount of health care…