[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5808]
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                            ALL LIVES MATTER

  (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, in the past year, our Nation has witnessed 
an unspeakable tragedy--a rivalry of law enforcement officers and the 
communities they work so hard to protect.
  From riots in Ferguson and Baltimore to, most recently, the 
individual targeting and murdering of police officers, our Nation is at 
a crossroads.
  We find ourselves asking:
  When will the rule of law and those who enforce that law, once again, 
be respected?
  How many more violent protests and threatening chants will those who 
bravely wear the badge have to put up with?
  How much more taunting under the guise of a misleading slogan be 
tolerated before community organizers, prominent African American 
leaders, and Democrats at the city, State, and national levels say 
enough is enough?
  When will we hear in unison: ``It is not okay to kill police 
officers''?
  Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I are here this evening to honor those 
in uniform who have fallen, but we are also here to call for an end to 
this violence. We are here to call for the restoration of law and 
order. We are here to call for the protection of the men and women who 
put their lives on the line every single day--the ones who chose a 
profession to help make their neighborhoods safer.
  These are not just police officers. They are mothers; they are 
fathers; they are husbands and wives; they are sons and daughters. Mr. 
Speaker, their lives matter, too, and all lives matter.
  In God we trust.

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                          IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL

  (Mr. FITZPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, a poll of my constituents in 
Pennsylvania's Eighth District, one of the true swing districts in this 
House, shows that they disapprove of the administration's nuclear deal 
with Iran by a 2 to 1 margin.
  These returns are in line with recent national polls showing 
Americans, as a whole, overwhelmingly disapprove of the agreement by a 
similar count, and they have every right to.
  What we have learned about this deal is that it does not go far 
enough to achieve its ultimate goal, to prevent Iran from getting a 
nuclear weapon. In fact, it would allow just that when it sunsets.
  In the meantime, ``anytime, anywhere'' inspections of Iranian nuclear 
sites were neutralized to provide up to 24 days' notice prior to any 
inspection.
  In addition, this deal precipitates a nuclear arms race in the Middle 
East, a reality we are already seeing, as nations like Egypt, Jordan, 
and Saudi Arabia have already begun building up their nuclear 
infrastructure in response.
  The hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief provided by 
this deal will no doubt be used to further fund Tehran's state 
sponsorship of terror.
  A nation that has a nine-figure line item in the budget to support 
terrorism, like attacks that devastated our Nation on September 11, 
2001, is hard to trust.
  Unfortunately, what we have is a bad deal, one that makes an already 
volatile, unstable Middle East less safe, clears the way for a nuclear 
Iran, and gravely endangers allies like Israel.
  I urge my colleagues to disapprove it.

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