Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman of our very bipartisan committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, Chairman Ed Royce, as well as Matt Zweig on his staff--he will be embarrassed that I say that--and Ranking Member Eliot Engel. I thank Mr. Engel for those wonderful words. I am going to miss working with him greatly. We have worked on so many important pieces of legislation together. And Mira Resnick and Edmund Rice on his staff, what a delight they have been. I thank them for their collaboration in developing this critical legislation. I am going to miss working with all of them. I also want to thank Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown, and John O'Hara and Colin McGinnis of their staff, for their hard work and commitment to achieving the strong, sound, bipartisan agreement that we have before us today. Finally, I thank my hometown Senator, Senator Rubio, as well as Senator Shaheen, who have taken the lead on this effort on the other side. For 30 years, Mr. Speaker, Hezbollah has remained Iran's proxy. Iran remains Hezbollah's primary source of financial support. What a terrible relationship these two have had. This bill builds on our past efforts. It ramps up pressure on this dangerous terrorist group. It sanctions regimes, including Iran and Syria, because they are providing weapons to Hezbollah.…”