We have threatened the NATO alliance with being 'obsolete' and refused in Europe at the moment it was expected to reaffirm Article 5 and our commitment to it.

He has embraced strongmen--Duterte of the Philippines; Erdogan of Turkey; Putin of Russia, el-Sisi of Egypt--while lecturing our closest allies about their commitments.

I am worried about what was not discussed, including basic human rights, including the rights of women.

We don't oppose the nuclear agreement. We oppose the fact that nothing else was tied to it.

We have to look at this relationship clear-eyed. We have interests; they have interests. But it is anything but a perfect or stable relationship.

Mr. Chairman, if I could just add, I have joined in the resolution so there are other members as well.

This is a test of a new administration, whether its close ties to Russia can be put to our advantage in terms of curbing the behavior of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Was it an all-comprehensive agreement that covered all of Iranian behavior and our concerns?

We don't get to rewrite history. You don't have to like it, but you don't get to rewrite it, and I think the record needed to be corrected.

Now is the opportunity to get back on the saddle here because we do have an opportunity to further exacerbate those financial tensions for Hezbollah.

I take enormous exception to my colleague from Virginia asserting that maybe this administration will get serious about sanctions when the previous one did not.

We care a lot about whistleblower protection legislation, and so we want to learn from your experience.

Clearly, Congress needs to do something.

The privilege should not extend to allow the Department to hide its internal communications about responding to Congress.

The American people, including the Terry family, they are right here, they are right here to remind us of what government can do that is illegal and get away with it.

I hope, I want to believe it is by a rookie White House that doesn't fully understand how the legislative branch functions and constitutionally has a function.

I urge you all to take off your partisan hats for a moment.

if there is one thing in terms of process that ought to unite us, it is in opposition to this avowed policy coming out of the Trump White House

It would be interesting to hear from them.

We need a package of rules and legislative changes so that responders to congressional inquiries cannot rely on phony privilege claims and delay tactics.

I agree with my friend from Maryland. Official time is a very useful tool in the Federal workplace, both for management and for labor, and has proved its worth over the years. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California…

I am certainly gratified for the clarification of my friend. It now gives me great pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch), my good friend and a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform…

I must say, the gentleman from Florida, who is an honorable man and a friend, and we have collaborated, but his own words transformed what this really was. They persuaded us that by voting for this, we are not voting for a reporting bill…

I thank my friend because I am going to run out of time. I must say to my friend, my prepared remarks were designed to support this bill.

My friend from Florida is my friend and he knows I respect him, but when you give an opening statement on a bill that goes far beyond a reporting requirement that we thought we were supporting and you use the occasion to disparage Federal…