you have changed your testimony here from what you told me in my office

do you consider Gateway a project that is nationally important?

when we pass something here in the Senate 98 to 2, and overwhelmingly in the House, that is the law of the land and the law needs to be implemented

If you do not know what civilian casualties are--we do not measure it, as General Votel says--and you said, yes, we do not track all civilian casualties from Saudi operations, but we have seen them improve targeting behavior.

Other than the rhetorical support for a negotiated settlement, what is the administration specifically doing to facilitate a negotiated settlement?

What is your answer to that request?

The reality is in the past we have had specific hearings on a specified AUMF to be marked up before we actually voted on it.

Given our committee's jurisdiction over the execution of U.S. foreign policy and the State Department in particular, it is fundamentally necessary that we receive testimony from the very administration officials executing that policy, not…

So helping the Saudis is how we, in part, counter Iranian influence is what you are telling me.

This hearing is particularly timely given the debate the Senate recently held on the U.S. military support to the Saudi-led coalition.

We are not going to stand by while you thwart the statute and subvert congressional intent.

Is it in the United States' national security interest to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran agreement without a strategy for what comes next?