Brad Sherman actually said...

This was Iran's money. The Shah sent $400 million in the 1970s. We held on to it.

I would point out that in an emergency situation, Congress could meet and authorize a payment as quickly as we could vote.

It never hurts to reiterate our policy against paying ransom.

I think that if we wait until post-election, where we can sit in calm fashion and talk to our State Department and diplomats, et cetera, the...