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David Schweikert: First I would like to thank Chairman Royce. He has actually dealt with this and done this very honorably. It has been…

On the recordSeptember 10, 2015
First I would like to thank Chairman Royce. He has actually dealt with this and done this very honorably. It has been powerful to watch. There has been amazing testimony given to us. There have been great speakers here. But I fear something very important has not gotten enough understanding and enough focus. Who in this body is going to take responsibility when the Iranian regime is flush with cash and the death and destruction that is coming with that? Who here is going to take responsibility for the displaced people around the region? Who here is going to take responsibility for what some of the experts have told us, the potential financing of a Sunni-Shia war in the region, the amount of death, whether it be the $59 billion the administration talks about or the $150 billion that sits in accounts around the world that is about to be handed back to the regime? I hold up this board next to me so you can see this is more. This is so much more than just the neighbors around Iran. The bad acts have been happening all over the world. Tell me why there is Iranian Revolutionary Guard money, Quds Force money showing up in our hemisphere. Earlier this year I was at a series of meetings in Panama. We had parliamentarians from the region speaking to us, telling us that they are actually seeing Iranian money moving through their banks, financing bad actors in their region, creating death and destruction, trying to finance the overthrows of their governments.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Sep 10, 2015

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