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On the recordJanuary 7, 2020
I am sure the gentleman will. I thank the gentleman very much. Mr. Speaker, I am really torn. I want to continue discussing the legislation that is out there, but I really stand in front of this Chamber--which at the moment is empty--with a very, very heavy heart and extraordinary concern. I am looking at where we are as a nation this evening, and I am going to really ponder tomorrow what fate may behold our men and women in the military. A couple of hours ago the inevitable happened. I think I was a freshman in high school and my science teacher was trying to give me some of the principles of physics. He was talking about for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. He was showing various examples of that and, of course, I was then playing football and I could really understand. I hit somebody, and they would hit me back; or I would push somebody and they would push back. I would like to think that I was more than equal. Last Friday, our President took an action and launched missiles at the highest commander of the Iranian military and killed him, along with one of the major, if not the major commander of the militia units in Iraq. That attack took place just outside the Baghdad International Airport. That was an action, presumably, to prevent some future action that might be taken by the Iranians and by their leader or directed by their leader, Soleimani. My high school science teacher could not have been more correct.…
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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