“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 recordFebruary 14, 2011
I would be very interested in what the administration is doing to address that, what I consider to be a human rights violation.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

McCaul calls attention to the imprisonment of Alan Gross as a human rights issue.

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