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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

The Legislative and Executive Branches should begin now to jointly develop sanctions legislation that would be ready to be voted and immediately implemented in the event that the talks end without agreement.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

Iran's patronage of Shi'a militias before and especially since the departure of U.S. forces in December 2011 has disrupted the domestic political balance.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

I would recommend that it would be good reading to look at the U.S. Constitution.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

What we may end up doing is ratifying an Iran with an industrial scale enrichment capability on the threshold of a nuclear bomb.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

Hezbollah is a cancer on Lebanese society funded, supported, paid for by Iran.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

We could reach a compromise with the administration on the whole issue of the timing of legislation.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

The President would be wise to consult with Congress on various legislation moving forward.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

A strategy of coercion must move beyond imposing financial penalties as Chairman Royce suggested.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

A nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained. It would threaten the elimination of Israel, the security of the Gulf nations, and the stability of the global economy.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

The Obama administration has done a commendable job of enforcing the laws that Congress has passed, even the ones we passed over their objections.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

This is a development I want to stress that threatens the homeland security of the homeland as well as that of our European allies.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

If we cannot achieve an agreement that meets our requirements, then we will have little choice but to turn from diplomacy to other means of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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Rubén Hinojosa
@rubnhinojosa· Democratic · TX· Jan 26, 2015

However, due to their financial trouble in recent years, we have seen attempts to not just reform them, but wind them down completely, and I don't agree with that.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

When I say its militancy, the fact that the Ayatollah still leads chants of 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel'.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

We ought to have a July 1 program ready to go and in order to do that, Congress actually has to vote on a bill, rather than not vote until July.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

the President threatens to veto Congress' attempt to hold Iran accountable, yet deadlines are repeatedly missed.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

I will just tell you I remember the North Korean nuclear framework agreement. That doesn't seem that long ago and that was 20 years ago that we were talked into that.

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Ed Royce
@edroyce· Republican · CA· Jan 26, 2015

Some would argue--certainly we believe this--that the leverage that we brought to bear has helped bring Iran to the table.

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