Seth Moulton: “We are here today to fundamentally do our jobs. That is something that we ask of our troops every single day across the…”

“We are here today to fundamentally do our jobs. That is something that we ask of our troops every single day across the world on the front lines in places like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and throughout Africa. There is bipartisan concern, bipartisan recognition that Iran has ill will towards the United States, that Iran is an enemy of the United States, that Iran wants nothing more than to see our country and our democracy die. The most solemn responsibility that we have in ensuring that that doesn't happen is upholding the fundamental principles of our country and of our democracy, of showing that we have the courage here in Congress to uphold that oath, that same oath that we ask our troops to uphold in far more difficult circumstances every single day. Iran is threatened by us because of the values that we represent and the power that those values carry in the world. It is when we abandon those values, when we undermine those principles, when we forget that oath to our Constitution that our enemies start to win. I have fought Iranians on the ground in Iraq. I have seen Iranians kill Americans. I remember how much more accurate the Iranian mortars were than the Iraqi ones we were used to facing. I get this, but I also never forget that oath that we took, and this resolution, passing this resolution is about upholding that oath to our Constitution. Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr.…”