I want to say that everything the chairman has said is absolutely correct. Of course, the committee can meet with the consent of everyone willing to do so. I appreciate him and his willingness to do that. I will say one of the members--I…

I first thank everybody who worked on this. I know there are a lot of political conundrums that people find themselves in. We have an August recess. This issue has come up. But I wonder if I could ask a question of the Senator from…

Well, I would say that every time I get a sense I want to do that, the Senator from California says something that challenges the integrity of another Senator, so it makes me not wish to do that. So I don't know. I will say that I am going…

I will close by saying that I think it is perfectly fair for the chairman to say that if we can't have a bill like this discharged on the floor, then other resolutions which sometimes do come to the floor without going through committee…

I thank the Senator from Delaware and the Senator from California for going ahead with this amendment. I thank Senator Carper for this leadership not just on this issue but other issues. I know we are working with other long-term issues…

to my colleagues, we are now on the Senate Finance Committee bill. There is one major flaw in this bill. It has $2.8 billion worth of pension smoothing. This amendment does away with that. What it means is it would be a better bill, but we…

I do not support another extension of negotiations.

I appreciate your testimony, candidly, and feel very aligned with much of what you had to say.

I want you to clearly state to me: Will you, or will you not, come to Congress before lifting...

I hope that today you will publicly commit that there will be absolutely no more extensions, none;

I think the world understands that that is a zero commitment and it is not in keeping with what Secretary Kerry said on April the 8th.

I hope you will agree to some format that gives Congress the ability to weigh in on this final deal.

If the inspection period is something short of 20 years or so we have really not done much, right?

Iran's compliance with all U.N. Security Council resolutions would be the ultimate test.

I actually believe that acknowledging Congress playing a role in one of the biggest issues that this administration is going to deal with relative to reaching agreement on nuclear issues--I think that Congress can be an important and…

When you do that, how do you know that, when people are sharing with you what they were doing in the past, how do you know that that is in reality what they were doing in the past?

I think that means strengthening the credibility of the sanctions threat, strengthening the credibility of the military threat.

They are shipping oil to Syria instead of sending them money. They are working against us in that regard, and you do not count that as an export. I just find that to be ludicrous.

I think all of us--I think you know that everyone up here really does want to see a diplomatic solution, and everyone appreciates the work that all of you are doing.

unless it is really, really long we have done nothing, we have done nothing.

Congress is relevant relative to raising concerns, not relevant relative to whether this is going to be approved by Congress or sanctions waived.

I think that, just for what it is worth, the subtraction of condensates is a--I forgot what they called new math when I was a young man, but it is a very creative way of not counting all of their exports.

The goalposts continue to move as we talk about where this deal is going.

I think that is pretty instructive as to when we say long-term verification and enforcement agreements, it is very different, the two paradigms here, between where Iran is at and where South Africa was at.

I know that those of us who have visited recently know that before this all occurred U.S. influence was at an all-time low and really almost not present.