Rob Woodall: “I tell the gentleman I, too, have a rumored speaker who is on his way, so we are in the same boat in that space. Mr.…”

“I tell the gentleman I, too, have a rumored speaker who is on his way, so we are in the same boat in that space. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I read further from the Statement of Administration Policy, the veto threat that the gentleman from Massachusetts noted earlier. {time} 1300 He did read the section that said: If the President were presented with H.R. 5461, his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill. There is more on this page, Mr. Speaker. He also says: `` . . . the Administration remains clear-eyed regarding Iran's support for terrorism, its ballistic missile program, human rights abuses, and destabilizing activity in the region.'' Now, Mr. Speaker, what he is referencing, no doubt, ties into the report that the State Department released over the summer, naming Iran the number one international sponsor of terrorism. Now, what this bill asks is: If you know you have a corrupt government--again, in the administration's words, Iran's support for terrorism, its ballistic program, its human rights abuses, and its destabilizing activity in the region--if you know that you have a dangerous government and if you know that corrupt leaders of that government are hiding their resources in foundations across the nation, if you know that those foundations are controlling a third of the Iranian economy, continuing to keep its foot on the voice of the Iranian people, if you know that this is true, why won't you stand up and be counted?…”