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Ted Poe, R-Texas, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs and Judiciary committees, said on the floor Friday. “It’s interesting that Saudi Arabia objects to this legislation.
“It was all happy talk,” he said of the sunny outlook espoused the previous night by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and others.
Peter T. King, R-N.Y., a former Homeland Security Committee chairman. “They’ve been lagging several years behind us. For a number of years, the Europeans thought we were overreacting.
Boehner, R-Ohio: Boehner hasn’t said outright what he wants to hear from the Pope, though he’s alluded previously to Francis’ readiness “to take on the status quo … and say what he really thinks.”
After nearly a half hour of cross-talk and overlapping questions Harf concluded there were “r eally thorny issues” being discussed in the ongoing negotiations, but said the current level of nuclear material