I appreciate the serious risks that U.S. travelers to Iran may encounter and have welcomed the State Department's Level 4 travel advisory warning Americans not to travel to Iran.

This group has used Palestinians as human shields, has terrorized its own population and, of course, this October the 7th raid and destruction, kidnaping, rape of Israeli people.

Hamas has been since its inception a military and political entity dedicated to one thing, destruction of Israel.

I share the same goal as the sponsors of this legislation and that is to prevent Iran from profiting off its petroleum reserves.

Hamas is not all of the Palestinian people.

The United States and many of our allies have long been concerned about Palestinian textbooks that contain blatant antisemitic and anti-Zionist references that incite hatred and violence toward Jewish people.

You cannot put human beings all in the same category.

Humanitarian relief in Gaza is morally the right thing to do but also in America's foreign policy interests.

This amendment addresses my concerns about hasty and unhelpful restrictions on Americans' freedom of movement for the Secretary of State to take the step to invalidate U.S. passports for travel to Iran.

Diplomacy, something that I believe in with every inch of my body, should be at the forefront of all of our global engagements.

While I appreciate the work and I understand to be my colleague's aim to deter hostile actors in Iran or elsewhere from taking American hostages or wrongfully detaining them overseas, we must all work together and ensure that the State…

The options to stop it from advancing even further to weapons grade are even more limited.