David Perdue: “I rise tonight to speak about a very troubled time in my life and in this body. I didn't think this moment would arise…”

“I rise tonight to speak about a very troubled time in my life and in this body. I didn't think this moment would arise in my tenure here in the U.S. Senate, but tonight I am very troubled about being a Member of this body. Just a few short months ago, we told the American people, in our Foreign Relations Committee, that we could work together. We unanimously passed a bill that gave this body, the U.S. Congress, a right that the President and his administration had denied us by not allowing this to be treated as a treaty. Yet we stand here tonight-- even though a unanimous bill came out of the committee and 98 Senators voted for us to get a look and a vote on this deal--without the ability to tell the people back home that we will, in fact, have a vote on this deal. I find that terribly troubling. As a matter of fact, I am embarrassed. The people back home deserve better than this body is providing. There is bipartisan opposition to this deal. There are good Democrats who in their deep conscience are going to oppose the President, and I respect that, but there is not bipartisan support for this deal. There is a huge difference. Only one group in this body is supporting this President's deal with Iran. I am troubled by that. I applaud Senator Cardin, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee. I applaud Senator Corker as the chairman of that committee. Under their leadership, we got to this point.…”