Wendy Sherman: “When I came to this House in 1997, a few months after I started serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I said back…”

“When I came to this House in 1997, a few months after I started serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I said back then that the Iran nuclear program was the greatest single threat to the security of Americans. It was true then. It is true now. On July 14, a few hours after the deal was published, I came to this floor and said that what this House ought to do is consider a Resolution of Approval of the nuclear deal and to vote it down by a large vote. That is exactly what we will do tomorrow morning. Let me go through a number of points that proponents and opponents of this deal can both agree on. The first is this resolution is quite a bit different than the one we have been thinking about for the last month. This is a Resolution of Approval. And even if we vote it down, the President can and will carry out this agreement. That is very different from the Resolution of Disapproval that we have all talked about and made commitments about. We don't have any commitments on this resolution. It is a totally new resolution. This resolution will express the feelings of Congress, but will not prevent the President from carrying out the deal. Second, we can agree this deal is better during the next year and a half than it is the next decade. The controls on Iran's nuclear program are much stronger for the first 10 years than they are thereafter. Whether you like the deal or hate the deal, you have got to agree that it is better up front than it is in the out-years.…”