Roger Wicker

I think that part of the challenge for policy is when there is--and, by the way, these things go up and they go down.

I think we will acknowledge that that auction was a huge success.

The Iranian regime certainly can be expected to increase its missile programs with investment from unfrozen financial assets.

Current assessments of Iran's capabilities indicate the range, accuracy and quantity of Iran's ballistic arsenal today is improving dramatically in real time.

Iran's missile and rocket development continues to pose a potential threat for U.S. forces and partner nations in the region.

We are Israel's strongest strategic ally.

It is striking that from right to left, every ideology within the country of Israel is opposed to this agreement.

They are a nuclear threshold state, and they have denied all along that they had any intention of doing so up and to the present time.

The arms embargo and ballistic missile restrictions on Iran will be lifted not later than eight years from now, and possibly much sooner.

Throughout the negotiations, including in the weeks prior to the agreement, the administration promised 'anywhere, anytime' inspections.

I think we all can agree that Iran is unlikely to change its regional behavior in the wake of this agreement.

I believe our Gulf partners will seek their own advanced surface-to-surface delivery systems.

The JCPOA makes no mention of the arms embargo or the missile embargo.

I know she wants to talk about the larger issue. If it is, in fact, a modest and relatively harmless extension of the size, then I think perhaps States might want to make that decision themselves. They may very well conclude--39 have not…

I would commend to everyone's attention a simple straightforward bill that I have introduced called the Patient Focused Impact Assessment Act.

This may be the most important hearing we will have all year.

Senator Wicker has a keen interest in this, and we thank you for that.

It seems to me that if you have a 10-inch rise in sea level and more water pounding against the roadway, the sensible thing to do is exactly what Senator Whitehouse said, make your roadway a little higher and compensate for that perhaps…

Senator Carper, when I first joined the First Baptist Church in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1982, at the end of the service, we would all join hands and sing, There's a Sweet, Sweet Spirit in This Place.

I think this is a very sensible approach.

We are going to make a dash to the floor to make this cloture vote.

There are 12 participants, and we have no idea how many are ineligible?

We want eligible people to participate, and we want to be able to prevent ineligible people.

Do we have the political and policy backdrop with which to do so?

A political solution in which Assad stays in power, is that acceptable to you?