Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel). I rise in opposition to H.R. 5631, the so-called Iran Accountability Act. The majority has decided, on its own, without any bipartisanship, to co-opt traditional action on a bipartisan basis to counter Iran by fast-tracking sharply partisan legislation that would undermine not only the Iran nuclear agreement but fracture the very delicate international coalition that allowed us to reverse the nuclear development in Iran. I guess that is something that happens when amateurs write a bill without any foreign policy background. This bill was drafted, as Mr. Hoyer indicated, with no input from the minority and was brought to the floor under a closed rule. How can anyone, much less our adversary Iran, take this seriously? If the majority really cared about countering Iran, it would safeguard longstanding bipartisan consensus and bring to the floor a clean reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, which I would support and I am sure most people on my side of the aisle. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.”