[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 6, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H5042]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         OBAMA'S RANSOM PAYMENT

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last month The Augusta 
Chronicle, August 4, exposed ``The Obama administration . . . has now 
apparently been caught shipping $400 million in foreign currency to 
Tehran--coincidentally at the same time the mullahs released four 
Americans they'd held hostage.
  ``Wouldn't you tend to call that `ransom'?''
  The Wall Street Journal reports: ``The Obama administration secretly 
organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that 
coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran 
. . . Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other 
currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane . . . 
Iranian press reports have quoted Iranian defense officials describing 
the cash as a ransom payment.''
  Iran still chants ``death to America, death to Israel'' with new 
financing.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.
  Our sympathy to the family of Phyllis Schlafly, an American patriot 
who made a difference for limited government and expanded freedom.

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