On the recordMarch 1, 2012
I wish to thank the Senator from North Dakota for his leadership on this very important issue. I want to thank him for his perseverance and his vision in seeing the importance--along with Senator McCain, Senator Graham, and Senator Sessions--of this kind of effort, which had its genesis in the trip that we took to Afghanistan, Egypt, Israel, Tunisia, and Libya. What impressed us so much is how democracy is growing and starting there, and in that part of the world how the dictatorship and tyranny of Iran are such contrasts with the hopeful, burgeoning democracies that are growing there. That is the reason so many of our colleagues--I believe that over 60--have joined. I want to ask unanimous consent that Senator Klobuchar of Minnesota be added as a cosponsor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
