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On the recordJanuary 13, 2016
I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in my work on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I have spent an awful lot of my time on these types of issues. I think there is much we can say about this bill, but at the end of the day, it comes down to two fundamental questions. They are really quite simple. The first is: Do you believe that the President will hold Iran accountable? In an interview yesterday, I challenged the other person to show me the President's foreign policy success because I believe in this administration there has been 7 years of foreign policy failure, from China, to Russia, to Afghanistan, to Syria. The list is long. We have to ask: Do we trust the President to implement policies that keep the world more or less safe? The second question is just as simple: Do we trust Iran? I asked Secretary Kerry to show me a single example of Iran working with us or with our allies in any positive fashion. They are, as has been said here, the world's greatest sponsor of terrorism. Recently they broke U.N. agreements not to test ballistic missiles. They have held our soldiers. From Hezbollah, to Hamas, to Syria, they foster terror and darkness everywhere they go. Do we trust Iran? Very simply, the answer is no, which is why this bill is so important. It helps us to hold Iran accountable. It helps us to hold their proxies accountable.…
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