Political Quotes

“I don't, as you can see, have much to say on this because it is really an interesting situation. It is an amendment looking for a problem that doesn't exist. It is an amendment looking for the possibility that the President--there we go again, the gentleman in the White House--that the President may do something he hasn't said anything about doing. The Treasury Department says that there are no current plans to amend the regulation and that flexibility is not at issue at this point because no one is discussing this. The second part to this amendment is the underlying feeling by some Members still that the deal with Iran was a bad deal, that that deal won't work, and that somehow we will be left holding the bag. Well, giving peace a chance, as the song says, is never a bad thing to do. I would hope that in the future we deal only with amendments that speak to an existing problem and not to an amendment that simply speaks about: What if? We have too many what-ifs in amendments. Mr. Chairman, I oppose the amendment and would hope that our colleagues would vote against it. I reserve the balance of my time.”