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Sam Farr: I have been listening to this debate all day, and I really have to be, I guess, angered by the amount of misstatement of…

On the recordSeptember 10, 2015
I have been listening to this debate all day, and I really have to be, I guess, angered by the amount of misstatement of fact here and about this House being so negative about this country and about our President. You can't get away with criticizing Presidents or leaders of other countries being negative about us when you are standing around being negative about our own country and our own President. This agreement is about trust, and it isn't about trust with Iran. It is about trust with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Nobody has spoken about what that Agency does, other than the chairman, about how important it is. It has been around since 1957. We helped create it. It has 2,400 employees. We probably trained most of them. They know about inspections. They are an international organization. They don't belong to anybody. No country owns them. You can't go and trash all day that they have a secret agreement with Iran when they have a secret agreement with the United States and with Russia and with China and with all the other signatories. That is their business. They go in and verify. We don't allow them to go into our top classified areas without some agreement of how you are going to handle that classified information. They are not going to release that information to other countries. They wouldn't have any credibility. When you are asking that the President release that information, he doesn't have it. He doesn't own it. It is the IAEA and Iran.…
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California
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Sep 10, 2015

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