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On the recordJuly 7, 2016
This is about the Iran deal, and you could paint it any way you want. Anyone can say what they want about it, but it is about a deal that people would like to destroy. And so any opportunity we find, we do it. The charts that you showed are very good. The charts that the gentleman showed, Mr. Chair, are very good, are very strong, with a lot of information. But I am wondering, aren't those charts being shown to our military? Aren't those charts, in fact, being seen by our government? Isn't our President aware of whatever the gentleman claims? He makes it sound like it is a secret that somehow folks on the other side found out. Whatever is happening, if something is happening, our government, our military will react to it. He says to separate the Iran deal from what is going on. Well, separate the military from this President that the other side doesn't like. The military very carefully looks at this and advises the President. So, if something was going on that was out of order within the deal, they would tell him immediately. I know that, and I am confident of that. This, I repeat, is just one of the many ways that we will see, not only tonight and have seen today, but on many other bills and for as long as we can, to see if we can undo the Iran deal, just the same way some people are trying to undo some other deals that were put together recently by this President. I yield back the balance of my time.…
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José E. Serrano
Democratic · New York

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