Political Quotes

“Madam President, obviously I appreciate the comments of the distinguished ranking member. Our former chairman, Senator Menendez, is here; Senator Gardner, the two of them. We are way ahead in the Senate in many ways in addressing this issue prior to these last provocations by North Korea. I thank them for that. Again, as Senator Kaine mentioned, we are doing it in the best fashion of the United States. Where there are differences, we worked together to hammer those out and ended up, as Senator Cardin just mentioned, with a stronger piece of legislation. I also commend the House. They sent over a very good bill. They really did. It was strong. Senator Gardner and Senator Menendez, with all of us working together, were able to broaden it out and to deal with some other issues that were not dealt with in that piece of legislation. The fact is, things have occurred since that legislation passed that have caused people to want to put in place a much stronger, much bolder footprint as it relates to North Korea. What is amazing--and I appreciated your comments about Senator Kaine. I don't think we have a more thoughtful or more principled member on our committee, and I don't think there is any way the Iran review act would have occurred without him taking the steps that he did to break the logjam at that time.…”