Jim DeMint: “If we do not accede to this treaty, our major mining companies... will not drill, will not exploit.”

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.

Well, Anderson, this issue is much bigger than North Korea. We're now living in a world we've got to understand that North Korea is going to have nuclear weapons.

Certainly, the Federal Government needs to be an example everywhere we can.

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.