[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 137 (Wednesday, November 12, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H7904-H7905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
IRAN NUCLEAR NEGOTIANTS DEADLINE
(Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, we are now less than 2 weeks away from
the Iran nuclear negotiations deadline.
A deal that allows Iran to enrich any uranium and to keep in place
its nuclear infrastructure is a bad deal. As long as Iran maintains the
capability to enrich uranium, it can create a nuclear weapon.
The administration has always misinterpreted the goal of our
sanctions. They are to compel Iran to completely abandon its nuclear
pursuit.
As the deadline looms and as Republicans are set to control Congress,
I urge my colleagues to not allow President Obama to trade away the
only leverage we have over the mullahs in
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Tehran in exchange for minor and easy reversible modifications by Iran
on its nuclear weapons program. Simply pushing back Iran's breakout
time is not in the interests of the U.S. national security. Ensuring
that there will never be an Iranian bomb is in our Nation's interest.
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