Sam Gejdenson: “while I have grave reservations about many parts of the bill, the en bloc is certainly acceptable. I want to commend the…”

“while I have grave reservations about many parts of the bill, the en bloc is certainly acceptable. I want to commend the gentleman from New York [Mr. King] for the work we have done together on the Iranian provision within it. There is no country in the world today that is more active in the support of terrorism that is trying to derail the peace process in the Middle East to the degree that Iran is. The signal that we must send from this Congress and from every government official in this country is that that kind of behavior is unacceptable, the United States will continue to resist it, and clearly the President's leadership on this issue is something we need to stand behind. As we learned in the first instance where Americans were taken hostage in Iran, Iran may begin terrorism elsewhere on the globe but the pain will inevitably come back to us in the United States. This is something we need to get our European allies to join us on. The efforts of this date are tremendous, but they are not sufficient without getting Europe to join us in this effort. Again, I would like to thank the gentleman from New York [Mr. King] for working together on this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to co-sponsor this amendment with my colleague from New York, Mr. King, who has been a leader on this issue. This resolution puts our allies and others on notice that the Congress expects their cooperation in isolating Iran.”