[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 108 (Monday, July 13, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5108]
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                                  IRAN

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, we may be hours away from a deal with Iran. 
The question before us is not is it a good deal or is it a bad deal or 
what should the executive branch of government do. The question before 
us is what should Congress do if we have a President who has signed the 
deal.
  We don't know precisely what is in the deal. But we do know that it 
has advantages and disadvantages in the first year because it causes 
the vast majority of Iranian stockpile of enriched uranium and the 
majority of their centrifuges to be taken off the table. The 
disadvantage is it provides the Iranian Government with access to $120 
billion plus of its own money.
  We do know that, in the next decade, the deal will be unacceptable 
because next decade Iran will be able to have massive enrichment 
facilities.
  So the question before Congress is, first, how do we prevent this 
deal from being morally binding on the American people next decade with 
that administration and that Congress.
  And then the tougher issue is whether we want to forfeit the 
advantages, knowing there are disadvantages, of what the deal does in 
its first year.
  It is this kind of analysis, not partisans screaming about is it a 
good deal, is it a bad deal, that should guide us in the future.

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