“We continue on a daily basis very successfully to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships.”
“We did a pause to try to get an agreement with the Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it.”
“One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.”
“The only reason why the U.S. is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping.”
“We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind.”

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On the recordNovember 26, 2019
The majority gets to pick three witnesses. The minority gets to pick one witness. So we'll have one witness who they chose, we'll have three.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Steve Cohen explains the witness selection process for the impeachment hearing in response to criticism from Congressman Doug Collins.

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