12/13/2003
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"No sanction has been lifted. Nothing in the architecture of the sanctions regime has been changed whatsoever."
"I want to thank Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Graham for their leadership, as well as each member of the subcommittee for their commitment to America's leadership in the world."
"Believe me, I know that choosing to be on this committee doesn't win you many votes back home."
"The United States, led in many ways by the Senate--you were a member there at the time--went through the careful and, I think, painstaking process of both diplomacy and tough sanctions."