[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   GOP ATTACKS AGAINST A NUCLEAR DEAL

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, Republican self-styled experts like Sarah 
Palin, Glenn Beck, and Donald Trump condemning an agreement to decrease 
the nuclear threat is hardly new.
  One Republican Presidential candidate blasted a ``nuclear Munich.''
  The National Review denounced a ``suicide pact.''
  The Conservative Caucus founder derided our President as a ``useful 
idiot'' and a ``weak man.''
  Old George Will lamented the ``cult of arms control.''
  Sharp words for a President who is negotiating a nuclear agreement 
with an untrustworthy, terrorist-promoting regime that is bent on 
destroying America.
  Yet these shrill Republican attacks were not against President Obama, 
rather they were against President Ronald Reagan for agreeing with the 
Soviets to limit nuclear missiles. What the bomb-first, rejectionist 
crowd lacks in understanding and creativity they make up for here today 
in fatal consistency. Those who think the only good deal with Iran is a 
dead deal over nuclear weapons are only endangering our families.
  This week, I believe that reason will prevail and the President will 
be sustained, and our families will be all the safer for it.

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