[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 73 (Monday, May 7, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       URGING THE PRESIDENT NOT TO RENOUNCE THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

  (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, having been briefed at every stage of the 
negotiation of the Iran nuclear deal, I was able to come to this floor 
just 2 hours after it was published and be the first to speak in 
opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.
  Today, I rise to urge the President not to renounce that deal. The 
question is this: Do we want to liberate the Iranian Government or 
sanction the Iranian Government? If we renounce the deal, then the 
Iranian Government is free to remove the inspectors, to begin a program 
of building an unlimited number of centrifuges, and can request the 
return of the fissile material, several bombs' worth of fissile 
material which, under the deal, they had transferred to Russia and 
which Putin might choose to return.
  If we renounce the deal, we do nothing to give ourselves additional 
rights because, under the deal, we are free to sanction Iran in full 
proportion to its nonnuclear evil. The Iranian Government is 
responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in Syria and tens of 
thousands of deaths in Yemen. That alone justifies every sanction every 
Member of this body can come up with.
  We can stay in the deal and sanction Iran.

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