Ed Markey

I am going to work my heart out with you on that.

Ninety-eight percent of the scientists are now saying the following. We now face a choice between an unpleasant planet, unpleasant planet, and an uninhabitable planet.

I just think it is sad to be on that side of the coin.

Do you know there are still 600,000 construction workers that haven't been working since the great recession?

I am very concerned that the whole Trust Fund expires in three and a half months or so.

Okay. Then let's talk about it in that context, if you could.

Do you think that is likely?

Is it better done sooner than later in the process?

I think at the political and diplomatic level that there are markers that the United States should set down very clearly in terms of the outcome and end state for Syria that limits the influence and long-term presence of IRGC-backed groups…

So we have this thing that is developing. It can be dealt with realistically or we can just step back and wait for the whole dynamic to unfold.

The great fear, obviously, that Israel has is that there is going to be from Tehran through Baghdad, through Damascus into Lebanon and Hezbollah, this greater threat to Israel, which is going to be created.

Just in the last couple weeks, and you can see the politics worsening, like in the United States, in Iran right now where 2 weeks ago, the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guard threatened that 100,000 missiles were ready to fly at Israel.

The longer we allow that dynamic to continue, the worse it is for American national security.

I agree with Senator Corker. I mean, I think our economic sanctions snapback is delusional, but I think their nuclear snapback is actually incredibly powerful.

So the administration is specifically encouraging all states in the Middle East to not pursue uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing facilities?

And another step that the administration could take to strengthen nonproliferation would be to achieve a ban on the production of fissile material in the Middle East.

What steps is the administration taking to encourage all NPT parties to sign and implement additional protocol agreements with the IAEA?

In addition to imposing restrictions on Iran's nuclear weapons programs, one of the great opportunities that the JCPOA provides is to raise the standards for the overall nonproliferation regime.

Iran deserves the benefits of the agreement they struck, but that if they want to capture the broader benefits of global commerce, they need to change their aggressive behavior.

I opposed the JCPOA, but I want to see it now carried out.

Throughout the Middle East, Iran is an instigator of instability and conflict, fostering violence through its financial support of terrorist groups and violent militias.

I think it is inadequate. I do not think it is, you know, going to actually have the kind of weight, force behind it that rejection of or conditioning of the China Civilian Nuclear Agreement would have.

I think we are going to continue to have a very serious problem.

I think we should have because this whole discussion on ballistic missiles now goes back to that China agreement.

It was my concern about the approval of the China Civil Nuclear Agreement without conditions attached to it.