On the recordDecember 13, 2011
I rise in strong support of this legislation. Under no circumstances should Iran be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. This is a dangerous regime which supports terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel. And every day they're getting closer to weaponizing a stockpile of enriched uranium. No amount of naivete or wishful thinking will get the Iranian regime to back down. They are liars, and diplomacy hasn't worked and won't work. They'll only play for time. We heard the same arguments about not putting the sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Now we hear that oil is going to go sky high. Well, you know what? I think morality is more important than the price of oil. I think morality says that this terrible regime should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, should not be allowed to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, should not be allowed to do the horrible things that it does. This important bill imposes tough sanctions on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and against the Central Bank of Iran, and the Iranians have to know our sanctions will only be increased if they don't back off soon. We have bipartisan support here. People say Congress doesn't work together. We worked together on this. This is important. We need to pass this bill.
