We should expect that some portion of the money from the sanctions relief will go to the Iranian military and could potentially be used to fund more bad behavior and terrorist behavior.
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To be fair, every President, Democrat or Republican, has built on the efforts of the previous President, so each President has increased that assistance.
Well, actually, it is the IAEA and every country with which it does Safeguards---- Confidential Protocols.
Iran has committed indefinitely to not engage in specific activities that could contribute to the design and development of a nuclear weapon.
If we walk away from this deal, Iran will begin marching forward with their program further.
Thank you very much, Senator. Indeed, we share the concerns that this Committee has and the Senate has and our country has about Iran's activities in the region.
By blocking each of Iran's potential pathways to the fissile material required for a bomb, the deal approved in Vienna ensures that Iran's nuclear program will be peaceful over the long term.
The United States of America would not have agreed to an agreement where access was not assured if the IAEA believed it had to have it.
It means that under this agreement and under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran is prohibited from pursuing a nuclear weapon, obtaining, acquiring, or developing one. Ever. Ever.
The U.S. Congress has the authority and the right under our Constitution and under the Corker-Cardin legislation to, in fact, review this and to vote a resolution of disapproval.
The President had all of the GCC, the Gulf Cooperation Council, to a meeting at Camp David to talk about how to develop security for the region and a regional strategy.
This deal is based on verification, not trust.
The IRGC does not support this deal. That should tell you something.
We should expect that some portion of that money would go to the Iranian military and could potentially be used for the kinds of bad behavior that we have seen in the region up until now.
That particularly, seems to me, might be the case here, where we are talking about managers.
Would you have your counsel look at the recently introduced Federal Intern Protection Act and indicate to this committee, to the chairman and the ranking member, whether you would support that act to prevent the harassment of interns in…
I hope that some of the Republicans on this committee who have expressed I think appropriate outrage at the harassment that went on here will join us as cosponsors to this bill.
I appreciate that. Mr. Speaker, the space in front of the White House is a First Amendment park. I was invited down to a commemoration by citizens, who come every Monday to urge the reform of our gun laws. To respond to fence jumping, some…