Mark Kirk: “I appreciate that and will look forward to your feedback as those programs and many others are implemented in the months…”

I want to take an opportunity to reiterate my concern for Robert Levinson, an American citizen who mysteriously disappeared in Iran almost 10 years ago.

I would urge the State Department... to continue to press the Government of Iran to fully cooperate in our efforts to find Robert and bring him home.

When Rouhani and his folks are sitting there with $1.7 billion in their jeans, it can be made very much worth their while.

I am dismayed that... not once did the Administration ever share that this was a pending item and/or that it was in the midst of a potential negotiation.