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Louie Gohmert: I do want to commend my friend from California (Mr. Schiff) for what he is doing. I think it is a very noble thing to do…

On the recordApril 22, 2015
I do want to commend my friend from California (Mr. Schiff) for what he is doing. I think it is a very noble thing to do when people are killed. Whether you want to call it a genocide or not, I just appreciate very much my friend Adam Schiff calling those names and giving them recognition after the hell on Earth they went through. It was a very noble endeavor. Mr. Speaker, what I came to the floor to talk about is the so-called deal that the administration is trying in every way they can to get Iran to even just say that they are okay with. Unfortunately, the Iranians have been dragging this out for years now. I read that Valerie Jarrett had been talking before with the Iranians before the deal--the negotiations, at least--ever surfaced. And we have reports that there was an informal negotiation taking place. It was denied back originally, and it turns out there were negotiations. So what this has done to Israel--our ally, our friends in Israel, the people that are actually our forward observers out there in the middle of the chaotic Middle East that this administration has helped make more chaotic--they are out there, and they are kind of like, as some people have referred to them, the miner's canary. When they are under attack, when they are struggling because of other countries, then we can anticipate the United States will be shortly behind it. Here is an article from The Wall Street Journal dated April 17, entitled, ``U.S.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Apr 22, 2015

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