Political Quotes

“I rise in very strong support of the Menendez-Kirk amendment. I wish to compliment the Senator from New Jersey for an outstanding performance in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today in which he called on the representatives of our government to move quicker on this. We saw the Baha'is radicals of Iran overrun the embassy of our allies in the United Kingdom. We saw the British Prime Minister just announce that he was removing all Iranian diplomats from the United Kingdom. We saw the Government of Italy announcing that they were suspending some diplomatic activities. We have seen a whole number of actions by the EU now to join with us on sanctions. I will just say with regard to this amendment that it has now been cosponsored formally by 46 Senators: Menendez, Kirk, Barrasso, Blumenthal, Blunt, Boozman, Brown of Massachusetts, Brown of Ohio, Cardin, Casey, Collins, Coons, Crapo, Feinstein, Franken, Gillibrand, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Johanns, Klobuchar, Kyl, Lautenberg, Lee, Lieberman, Manchin, Merkley, Mikulski, Moran, Murkowski, Nelson of Florida, Nelson of Nebraska, Portman, Pryor, Risch, Roberts, Schumer, Snowe, Stabenow, Tester, Thune, Toomey, Vitter, Warner, Whitehouse, and Wyden. These 46 Members are on the shoulders of the 92 who signed the Kirk-Schumer letter in August. When in these partisan times do we have all but eight Senators agreeing on a policy?…”