Mr. Berman's amendment pushes this forward, and it should be adopted.

I also want to make clear my view that nothing in this bill should limit in any way the President's ability to conduct diplomacy as he sees fit.

We will need to work with our global partners to make a sanction on the Central Bank as effective as possible.

This amendment would simply eliminate the specific reference to Russia and would exempt the Bushehr reactor, so long as and only if it is not used for Iran's nuclear weapons program, from sanctions under this bill.

While the reports required by INKSNA are 2 years behind schedule, an ongoing problem that has plagued successive administrations...

I have no further requests for time; and with the urging that the body do pass this, and hopefully pass this unanimously, I yield back the balance of my time.

I support the bill and urge my colleagues to do the same.

you will not support any agreement that gives up the hard-won rights of the Afghan people.

the war in Afghanistan can only end through a political settlement.

While the LRA may not pose a direct national security threat to the U.S. in narrowly-defined terms, it does threaten the stability of a large swath of central Africa.

It is Congress that played a leading role in putting the LRA on our foreign policy agenda.

the administration pursuant to congressional law prepared a strategy which specifically included references to a military objective to remove Joseph Kony and his top commanders from the battlefield