On the recordMarch 3, 2015
I thank the Senator from North Dakota and the Senator from South Carolina. As I look at where we are right now--first of all, our support for Israel and our friendship with Israel--this has been a very strong bipartisan issue, and it is an issue that rightly crosses party lines because we share the same values, the relationship is very important, we share technology, we share intelligence, and we share the concern that we do not want the world's worst regime to obtain the world's most destructive weapon, and that is the Iranian regime. So I want to welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to the Congress and very much listen to what he has to say, because he comes to us in a very important time where the administration is negotiating a potential agreement with Iran. What we want most of all is that that agreement will end Iran's nuclear program and be a real, verifiable, transparent agreement, because a good agreement is a blessing, a bad agreement is a nightmare. We have to hear from the Prime Minister of Israel, and I look forward to hearing what he has to say today about what a good agreement looks like. But make no mistake about why we must stop the Iranian regime from having a nuclear weapon. Because what they are doing around the world right now--they are the largest State sponsor of terrorism in the world. They have essentially destabilized the Government of Yemen through their support of the Houthis there. They have been supporting Hezbollah, a terrorist organization.…
