[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 3 (Thursday, January 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H113]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TERROR ATTACK IN PARIS

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Madam Speaker, today, I stand in solidarity with the people 
of France, and my thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the 
victims of the ruthless terrorist attack that happened in Paris 
yesterday.
  This rampage was perpetrated by terrorists who seek nothing but death 
and destruction for all of us who embrace something as basic as the 
freedom of speech. While we did not need it, this only reinforces and 
strengthens our resolve in the fight to defend our freedoms and our way 
of life.
  It may be an uncomfortable truth, but the reality is that we cannot 
stick our heads in the sand and hope that threats from radical 
extremists will go away on their own.
  Nowhere are the stakes bigger today, Madam Speaker, than in Iran. 
Iran and its nuclear weapons program, I believe, pose the number one 
threat to our national security.
  Our resolve in confronting the Iranian challenge must never waver, 
and I call on this new Congress to act right away in ratcheting up 
pressure and sanctions on Iran. This is not a left versus right issue. 
This is a right versus wrong issue.

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