[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       AMERICA STANDS WITH ISRAEL

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Today, I had the privilege of welcoming the Prime Minister 
of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, for his second visit to the United 
States Capitol. The American people consider Israel our most cherished 
ally and we her closest friend and guardian. As we met, Israel lives 
under the shadow of a threatening neighbor seeking nuclear weapons but, 
remarkably, this administration seems intent on focusing on a 
controversy over construction in undisputed areas of Jerusalem instead 
of the threat of a nuclear Iran. As I just told the Prime Minister, I 
never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration 
would denounce the State of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem. If the 
world knows nothing else, let it know this: America stands with Israel.
  As the President meets with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, I urge 
the President to stop all this talk about settlements in Jerusalem and 
start focusing on isolating a threatening and menacing and rising 
nuclear Iran. The American people and the American Congress in both 
parties support the State of Israel.

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