Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I thank Chairman Hensarling for his leadership and impaneling a bipartisan task force to investigate terrorism finance, which I have chaired for the past 2 years, as we have looked into the increasing ability of terror groups to fund and to finance their actions and to evaluate the United States' response to these challenges. Throughout the duration of this task force, several policy experts provided testimony to the Iranian regime's direct supportive groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias, the Houthis in Yemen, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in Damascus. Prior to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the United States- led sanctions regime decimated the Iranian economy, suffocating domestic industry and causing the Iranian rial to free fall. However, even during this economic duress, the regime continued to provide billions to these destabilizing groups instead of providing for its citizens. This bill, offered by Mr. Poliquin of Maine, H.R. 5461, will provide the citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran--who have suffered great economic hardship as a result of their rogue government's nefarious policies--with the transparency necessary to see how the other half lives. This bill will make a positive advancement and change in their lives and provide the ability for them to see corruption in their economy and corruption in their government, and it will be for our security as well. I urge my colleagues to support the bill.”