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On the recordMarch 24, 2026
I am not going to speak for a long time. I have given this speech over and over again. Some people say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get the same results. The Democrats here have been doing the same things over and over and over again, and they are going to get the same result again tonight. Look, the conflict that we are in with Iran right now was not started by the United States. It was started by Iran when the Iranian regime took prisoner our staff at the Embassy in Tehran, 47 years ago, and held them for 444 days. And then, over the next 47 years, they have continued to kill Americans by the thousands--not by the hundreds, but by the thousands-- and they do it in the most insidious ways, with roadside bombs and that sort of thing, simply because they are Americans and they are present in the Middle East. The President of the United States said we have had enough. He had very good reason to pull the trigger at the time that he did, and, of course, those, as time goes on, will come out more and more. The fact of the matter is, we are in conflict. We have our brave young men and women on the ground. We have our brave young men and women fighting for the United States of America. So we need to back those people. We need to back the President of the United States. We all know this isn't going to go on very long, but it needs to be done. And our friends around us say: You need to get this done.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Discussing U.S. military involvement and the conflict with Iran.

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