Brian Mast: “I am going to respond to the trove of ridiculous things that I have heard said on this floor. Speaking generally about…”

“I am going to respond to the trove of ridiculous things that I have heard said on this floor. Speaking generally about life, I know that there are people out there that when they get hit, they curl up, they cry, and they don't deal with the situation. That is how some people deal with conflict. I can't personally say that I have known people that get hit, and they deny that it happened at all. That is literally what we have going on here. As my colleague says over and over, there is no imminent threat that is going on. The author of this bill acknowledged the imminent threat, wrote word after word, paragraph after paragraph in the very thing that my colleagues over there will vote 'yes' on to outline specifically the imminent threat that Iran is. He wanted it to be known the imminent threat that Iran is, but my colleagues are denying the imminent threat. They are denying that we have got hit. They say we started this war. To quote my colleague right now, Ranking Member Meeks, he said we started this war. That is a denial of every single time the United States of America has been hit.”