[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 82 (Monday, June 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4951]
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        SUPPORT FOR THE IRAN MISSILE PROLIFERATION SANCTIONS ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to associate myself with the 
comments of my colleagues, the gentleman from California (Mr. Berman) 
and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost), and to urge the President to 
sign legislation that would impose sanctions on those entities that are 
helping Iran develop ballistic missiles. Ballistic missiles in the 
hands of the government in Teheran would be destabilizing to the entire 
Middle East. We do not need to provide assistance to those companies 
that are assisting this ballistic missile program.
  We should seek a rapprochement with the people of Iran. We should 
look at the recent elections in which a relative moderate, and I 
emphasize the word relative moderate, was elected President and 
exercises some authority within the government of Iran. The people of 
Iran, though, do not benefit from ballistic missiles. Ballistic 
missiles are not an essential element of the economic development of 
Iran. Ballistic missiles would simply give the Iranian Government an 
opportunity to create mischief and death in the entire Middle East 
area.
  The President should welcome the most recent legislation, not as an 
interference, but rather as a bolstering of his own policies, to 
control ballistic missile technology.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the President to sign the legislation, and I 
associate myself with the comments of my colleagues.

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