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Louie Gohmert: It is interesting these days to hear our current Secretary of State, someone who as a Congressman went to Central…

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
It is interesting these days to hear our current Secretary of State, someone who as a Congressman went to Central America and basically was negotiating a deal with a communist leader--corrupt--at the same time the Reagan administration was conducting negotiations. I am very proud of my Senate friends down at the other end of the Capitol who sent a letter to Iran, since the former constitutional law instructor--not professor, but instructor--from Chicago doesn't seem to realize he needs the Senate advice and consent in order to create a binding treaty with another country, especially one that actually has a major impact on the ability to continue to exist for Israel and the United States. If this President and Secretary of State get the deal that includes everything that we would want that this administration has not already taken off the table overtly, then it means nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Our allies in the Middle East, so-called Saudi Arabia; Qatar; UAE; Egypt; and, in fact, most of the nations in the Middle East--Jordan, perhaps--are all going to need nuclear weapons to protect themselves. If this administration continues to persist with anything that does not require dismantling and stoppage of the spinning of the centrifuges in Iran that continue to develop nuclear material for bombs, then the whole world is going to be in trouble.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Mar 17, 2015

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