If confirmed, I will ensure that USTR continues to pursue an agreement with Colombia on accelerated tariff elimination.

The question I am going to ask Senator Boxer to respond to is: What are the consequences if we invoke cloture about 15 minutes from now when that comes up for a vote on the floor? There were many of my colleagues who had amendments they…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I want to join the praise to you, Ambassador Froman...

I will be very brief. This is an important amendment, as it deals with the rights of property owners to clean water. The Ogallala Aquifer is the largest aquifer in the western part of the United States, and the Keystone Pipeline would…

I ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside to call up amendment No. 75. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as…

We look forward to working with Committee members on introduction of the bill this Congress.

Thank you. I will take that. That is 90 percent of what I wanted.

We hear frequently that the United States has some of the highest marginal income tax rates in the industrial world.

Everything we are talking about has been tried in other countries, so nothing is new here.

I am not sure that just rearranging the chairs on the deck is going to make much difference.

We are looking forward to a very productive time.

I want to thank Secretary Kerry, Secretary Moniz, and Secretary Lew, and your entire negotiating team.

I believe that you have crossed a new threshold in U.S. foreign policy where now it is the policy of the United States to enable a state sponsor of terror to obtain a sophisticated industrial nuclear development program.

We need to focus on not just preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon--I think that remains our top priority with respect to Iran--but also countering the Iranian threat to regional stability.

I think what we are really focusing on is what is the appropriate role for Congress in accomplishing our objective to change Iranian behavior, whether its nuclear proliferation or whether its support of terrorism or whether its ballistic…

I will never criticize anybody for their vote, because I think everybody, hopefully, will vote their conscience based on what they feel is in the national interest of our country.

if we reach an agreement with Iran, if we are successful in having an agreement that prevents them from moving forward with a nuclear weapon program, there are still many other issues in our relationship with Iran.

I think we also need to take steps to more explicitly counter Iran's anti-access/area denial, A2AD, strategy in the Gulf.

I think that is a false choice.

We will be watching their actions to the U.N. resolution violation because to me it is telling whether we will have zero tolerance for compliance with the Iran agreement.

What we do know is what is in the framework agreement.

We can certainly also acknowledge that Iran has been actively engaged in its proxy activities.

I think we have to be very strategic as to how we deal with new sanctions legislation.

Iran is not going to return to a negotiating table.

The right diplomatic path, the right agreement, would be the best course for us to pursue to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state.