The Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016 is so important for resolving the vulnerabilities that currently exist with international security abroad.

I strongly encourage my colleagues in Congress to join in this effort to address a serious national security threat and vote today to pass the Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016 to keep Americans safe.

I think it is important for our constituents to know exactly what the President's strategy is in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and Syria.

There is so much state sponsorship of terror in that list, Mr. Secretary.

And, Mr. Secretary, if you would be able to submit for the record just a little more background as to why this is not treated as a treaty, I think it would be helpful for us.

An announcement this morning made at the White House was filled with falsehoods like 24/7, anytime anywhere inspections that aren't real.

This deal will actually result in more instability in the Middle East and cause... a nuclear arms race to some degree in that region as well.

The American public and the representatives in Congress should have the final say, not the President with a stroke of a pen.

I think that for the life of the Obama administration or at least this particular moment in time no one in the entire world... believe if the President says that the military option is on the table that he would actually do it.

We are handing them the $50 billion signing bonus but we are not even giving it to them with strings attached that they can't use the money to continue to finance terror.

Now that that is underway and you have an agreement that hopefully will be implemented, we are going to have to build up our power and our coalitions against Iran.