There is language in the bill with respect to restrictions. There is a waiver in the bill for those restrictions, and there is an extension of non-applicability of those provisions until 2020.
Howard Berman
The Public Record
I would like to add an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from California from my allotted time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California is recognized for 2\1/2\ minutes.
I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to my friend from New York, the ranking member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Engel.
Again, I would like to repeat that this crisis only ends one of three ways. Iran gets a nuclear weapons capability, and don't listen to straw man arguments. No one is saying Iran today has a nuclear bomb, but the IAEA has made it perfectly…
I am only going to use a moment of the time simply to address the issue that my friend from Ohio talked about with respect to sanctions. The focus on unilateral sanctions without international support versus effective multilateral…
I do not oppose the motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. On that basis, the gentleman from Ohio will control 20 minutes in opposition. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida.
The chairman of the committee, the gentlelady from Florida, has the right to close. Am I correct in that assumption? The SPEAKER pro tempore. Yes.
I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. Section 603 was not stripped from the bill, and section 603 does not prohibit the administration from engaging diplomatically on this issue.
I appreciate that very much. Just on this one issue, there is nothing in this bill that prohibits Americans from having contact with Iranians. There is nothing in this bill that prohibits the President of the United States or his Secretary…
I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to a former member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and member of the Appropriations Committee, the gentleman from California (Mr. Schiff).
Fast and Furious is only one program in many undertaken by the U.S. law enforcement authorities not only to limit the harm of illegal gun trafficking, but also, most importantly, achieve the broader goal of protecting U.S. and Mexican…
U.S.-Mexico law enforcement cooperation and general cooperation is wider and deeper today than it has ever been in the history of our two nations.





