[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 122 (Wednesday, September 12, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H5873]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, we had an attack in Cairo on our 
Embassy yesterday, and we had an attack in Benghazi, and we lost the 
Ambassador there. He was killed along with three other people.
  I've been on the Foreign Affairs Committee now for about 30 years, 
and I've never seen anything like what we've seen in the northern tier 
of Africa. All the way across the northern tier, we've seen the spring 
that they're talking about, and how things are changing and how 
democracy is coming.
  The fact of the matter is Iran is taking advantage of what's going on 
over there by sending intermediaries into all those countries to 
undermine them. I was just in the Persian Gulf recently, and there is 
absolutely no question that Iran is doing everything they can to 
undermine all those governments over there.
  When you look at what happened in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood 
taking over, we in this country ought to be very much aware that this 
is not the end of it. It's not going to go away. The administration or 
the new President, whoever it is that takes office in January, they're 
going to have to have a very strong foreign policy because we still get 
about 35 percent of our energy from that region.
  This is not going to end right now. It's going to go on. We have to 
be prepared.

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