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On the recordSeptember 10, 2015
I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between the P5+1 and Iran. The deal fails to dismantle Iran's nuclear program. It fails to guarantee intrusive enough inspections to ensure that Iran does not cheat, it fails to keep Iran from achieving nuclear threshold status, and it rewards Iran's horrific behavior. In the initial phase of this agreement, Iran would quickly receive a whopping sanctions relief package potentially totaling $150 billion. We all know that Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and that this money will embolden a regime openly committed to confronting the United States and destabilizing the Middle East. In 8 years, Iran legally begins expanding its ballistic missile program and continues expanding its intercontinental ballistic missile program under the guise of satellite testing. And who do we think these missiles are aimed at? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
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Juan Vargas
Democratic · California

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