Bob Corker

It is an understatement, I guess, to say that South Sudan is at a critical juncture today.

So what would be the President's resistance to going in and releasing them to be a part of this?

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I rise today to speak about an outstanding member of our staff, a friend, and a very special person who will soon leave the Senate--after almost 11 years of service--with her family to go to Nashville to begin the next exciting phase of…

I think that is what has everybody alarmed, that we have tacitly agreed to the fact that Iran will be enriching down the road.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Discussions in Vienna

I think all of us want to see a diplomatic solution to Iran and have been encouraged by the fact that the Administration has been dealing with them in this way.

I think what has shocked folks has been the text of the interim agreement, and I think it calls many of us to want to become involved.

I thank the Senator from Hawaii for the way she has dealt with us since she has been here. I rise today to talk about discussions that have been taking place in Vienna over the last four days relative to the Iran P5+1 discussions. I know…

I guess I do not understand why you would already agree on the front end to them not having the gold standard, if you will, as it relates to enrichment.

I mean, people generally act in their own self-interest. Why would an economically starved country blow money on a plutonium facility that has no commercial interest if their intentions are good?

Do the officials in Iran think that we have agreed to allowing them to enrich? I mean, every press statement they have made says that.

Here we have a rogue Nation--a rogue Nation--that is wreaking havoc, that is using a portion of our sanctions proceeds that we are alleviating right now to kill people in Syria, and you know that.

I do think that we are stepping away from base U.N. Security Council agreements, and I think what Congress wants to see happen is that not occur.

We have an interest in preventing even a largely dismantled al-Qaeda from rebuilding itself within an Afghan sanctuary.

I think it is an agreement to agree down the road.

It was not very specific.

Maybe. But, it is so in keeping with his relations with Iran over the last decade that at this point, I am not getting too excited about it.

We do not need another ungoverned space, another country like Somalia, like Yemen, like Syria.

I do sense there is a sincere effort, on behalf of our country, to end up with a bilateral agreement.

I appreciate you having all of these hearings, and Ranking Member Crapo, and working with him to make that happen.

I think there is no question that you agree, as someone who spent a lot of time in this world, that we need to move past the system we have now where private sector investors do really, really well when the market is good, and then the…

In my view, the Corker-Warner bill is a good starting point for thinking about how to keep the parts of the current system that worked, while eliminating the parts that proved problematic.

I know that we have looked a lot at capital and, you know, how much capital is necessary.