David Cicilline

I have been clear that I believe that the President, in threatening to walk away from the deal, will make it harder for us to achieve the changes that we need in policy to strengthen our efforts to combat Iran's dangerous behavior.

Let's designate the Quds Force as an FTO and Qasem Soleimani as its head.

I think we should begin about designating the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.

It is also damaging, if you think about it, whether you want, like I do, to find things we can do with allies consistent with the JCPOA, or whether you want to renegotiate it.

I believe that President Trump's decision not to certify under the terms of INARA jeopardizes the restrictions already in place on Iran's nuclear activity.

I think that is kind of an alarming suggestion, frankly.

The President has passed near-term responsibility for the issue to Congress, threatening to terminate the JCPOA

I would like to know what you think Congress could do unilaterally to an international agreement that would fix the deal?

And so I think the point you made earlier is an important one.

I believe that American policy and American strategy could yield access to Iran's military sites under this deal.

I would offer that if you, sir, and the Obama administration was that serious about combatting Iranian aggression, we should not have been providing $150 billion of sanctions relief to the Iranians to be able to conduct all of their bad…

For my colleagues who opposed the deal very strongly, and are now indicating that we should uphold it because it is not perfect. I was here witnessing all of the statements, the testimony about why my colleagues on the other side of the…

I would say that it was the wrong answer for us to be propping up the wrong regime with a jackpot of sanctions relief, and that we should be doing our part as Congress and as the United States, as the leaders of the free world, leading and…

I am asking, is that undermining our ability to be a leader in this crisis?

It seems like it would have significantly reduced our leadership and our credibility on the issue of refugees...

I would like to focus very specifically on the sanctions and what specific actions the administration is considering in terms of removing or revising any of the existing waivers on sanctions on Burma.

I would agree, Mr. Chairman. And that is why I think the best forum to do that very difficult balancing is in the context of a full deliberative legislative process.

Regulations protect you. They protect your freedom to enjoy safe clean drinking water.

The problem with the CRA is that with the snap of a finger, without even any discussion on the floor, the rule hits the trash can.

I am absolutely confident that Mr. Carter, who I agree is an American businessman and entitled to respect, had representation in all the rules that affect him and that concern him.

She has not simply been silent; she has refused to allow a U.N. factfinding mission to come in.

It is the Myanmar soldiers who are at the front lines of committing these abuses, and they are also those with the most power to bring them to an end.

The announcement of $32 million in U.S. aid was a very welcome shot in the arm, but U.N. agencies are now reporting there will be at least $200 million needed over the next 6 months to address the crisis.

The response of the Myanmar military has been grossly disproportional.

It is important to recognize ARSA, and it is important to recognize that there are other minorities, Rakhine Buddhists and Hindus who have been killed and displaced, but it is nowhere near on the scale of the Rohingya.