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“today I want to talk about some new information regarding the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration. This agreement is known sometimes as the JCPOA, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. This is an agreement that was reached by the Obama administration. It was voted on after the fact by this body. Actually, a majority of Members of the House and Senate chose to oppose the agreement, but not enough to be able to stop it. So it went into effect, and, as my colleagues know, it has gotten some play recently as the administration has pulled out the involvement of the United States in that agreement. What I want to talk about this evening is new information that has come from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which I chair. We began an investigation into one aspect of this agreement nearly 2 years ago, and it was based on information that we received that despite the Obama administration's claims to the contrary, there may have been some undisclosed arrangement with Iran to grant them access to the U.S. financial system. Recall that the basic deal with Iran went like this: In exchange for Iran agreeing to certain limitations regarding its nuclear arsenal, including limiting the new production of enriched uranium for 15 years, the United States and other members of the United Nations Security Council would agree to lift some economic sanctions on Iran. It was the basic construct of the agreement.…”