Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Menendez-Kirk bipartisan amendment is sponsored by over half of the Members of the Senate. It makes it very clear that the Treasury Department's own determination under the PATRIOT Act that the Iranian Central Bank is the central source for money for Iran's nuclear march toward a nuclear weapon needs to be addressed. That is exactly what we do in this amendment. It creates the maximum effort against the Iranians, and it ensures that we do not have any oil disruption as a result of those sanctions by giving the President the opportunity to make a determination that there are sufficient oil supplies so as not to create a disruption, and it gives him in addition a national security waiver. This is the maximum opportunity to have a peaceful diplomacy tool to stop Iran's march to nuclear weapons. I urge my colleagues to give it a strong bipartisan vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. I support the amendment. I think this amendment is vital at this time to send a strong signal to Iran, which recently tried to pull off the assassination of the Saudi Ambassador here in Washington, DC. It is long overdue, and it is too bad that the United States has to do it by ourselves rather than having the U.N. Security Council act. This is a strong amendment. I think it is very important and, again, I strongly support it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.”