There are a number of problems with this piece of legislation. One of the biggest ones is just the process of it. This has been dropped on us at the absolute last minute. In fact, on a bill that has profound impacts on the budget in a…

I have no further speakers, so if the gentleman has no further speakers I will close. I yield myself the balance of my time just really to drive home one point on the Armed Services' side of the equation, and that is the impact that…

I think it is critical that we do, but stay involved in a way that is positive and helpful.

Ranking Member, Committee on Armed Services

I think one of the challenges of the Middle East is balancing our various interests there in terms of, you know, we certainly want stability, and we want to build relationships and have friends.

I very much support Secretary Kerry's efforts to, once again, try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

Our policy is to keep the crippling sanctions on them.

Our policy is if everything else fails, we will use military force, but given the consequences of that we would dearly love to stop everything else from failing.

What they want, they want to be able to build a bomb without having international repercussions.

If our position is we just can't know, no matter what we do, we can't know, you know I guess isn't the only policy choice at that point to just declare war and get it over with?

We have some credibility issues in that region.

I think we are able to make progress and we need to allow diplomacy a chance to succeed.