I don't think we have--I mean, it is not apparent to me that we have a lot of options.

Until recently, Moshe Ya'alon was the Israeli Defense Minister. He said, today, because of the nuclear deal, Iran no longer poses an existential threat to Israel.

I strongly support Mr. Engel's amendment, which I think accomplishes what all of us on this committee in a bipartisan way should want.

This money was a payment for undelivered Iranian-owned, American-made military equipment dating back before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The Iran nuclear deal is working. Natanz--Iran has put 19,000 centrifuges in storage under international control. That is a win.

I would like to see our committee try to act, on controversial issues especially, in the bipartisan manner that, by and large, has characterized, I think, your chairmanship and the ranking member's tenure as well.

Could my friend speculate that it might have something to do with the fact that we are less than 60 days away from the presidential election?

If this committee's goal were just to get Mr. Pagliano or other witnesses on the record asserting their Fifth Amendment rights, we could do that easily in a private session.

Pursuing these kinds of blatantly political attacks undermines the integrity of our committee, the congressional process, and the constitutional rights that are supposed to protect our citizens against unsubstantiated accusations just like…

There's no legitimate reason for Republicans to force Mr. Pagliano to appear yet again before Congress just to assert his Fifth Amendment rights one more time.

We're spending our time trying to pillory somebody about how she managed/handled her emails, while she was traveling the world on behalf of this country to 111 countries trying to restore the U.S. Credibility and foreign policy after the…

This is political theatre.

Did the witness involved, the primary witness here involving these emails, did she lie? No. Did she deceive? No. Did she evade? No. Did she obfuscate? No. Did she deliberately keep or withhold relevant information requested from the FBI…

This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period of America's recent history when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the…

It is unfathomable to me that a four-star commander in the field would take guidance from a staffer in the bureaucracy.

Well, first the time I went to Beijing was in 1986, and there were a lot of bicycles in Beijing.

Thank God there were low-level people telling the President a different thing than Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

If we truly are concerned with preserving the entire historical record, why hasn't the committee sent a letter asking AOL to see if any of Secretary Powell's emails are recoverable?

I just want to thank you for the indulgence and I think our witnesses were great.

Secretary Powell is a man I admire greatly, and I have tremendous respect for Secretary Powell and his decades of service to our nation despite the poor judgment shown in this email.

I mean I heard my friend Mr. Perry talk about maybe that old system of 10 advisors is what we ought to go back to.

Frankly, how Congress is approaching this through the Armed Services Committee, not through the Foreign Affairs or Foreign Relations Committees, reminds me of H. L. Mencken.

I think it is just too important.

As part of our review so far, we have seen all kinds of ridiculous outcomes. We have seen agencies disagree on classification decisions.

I think we need to tread lightly. I don't think that the legislation only ought to have the imprint of the Armed Services Committee.