"President Obama pushes more Government spending, more regulations, more investments, expansion of Government, and more welfare as the proper response to this crisis we are in."
"When the agreements come to the United States to Congress, there is a briefing of Congress and Congress can act by resolution of disapproval to disapprove an agreement."
"The first of the 23 agreements that had a gold standard provision was the UAE agreement."
"These are not one-way deals. The countries that are engaged in these 123 negotiations with us--they really have something to gain from these negotiations."
"And Congress has the ability to disapprove an agreement, which it has never done."
"I am concerned that we will be increasingly marginalized if we do not explore changes to the current process for congressional approval."
"Has any House of Congress disapproved? Not a total disapproval, but has any House of Congress disapproved of one of the 23 earlier agreements?"
"I do hope that our government witnesses will address the reasons for concluding that this was the best approach."
"Maintaining uninterrupted civilian nuclear cooperation is important for U.S. political and commercial interests."
"We should examine whether it is time to call on Congress to provide a resolution of approval on all agreements prior to them becoming law."
"If the Vietnamese are willing to buy their nuclear fuel on the international market, why aren't they willing to agree to legally binding language forswearing enrichment and reprocessing technologies?"