[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 83 (Friday, May 15, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3545]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                  IRAN

  (Ms. SIMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about who we are in 
this moment when the world is watching us choose.
  The President's illegal war has already lasted 75 days and cost us 
over $29 billion.
  We are bombing schoolgirls in Iran, and we are standing by while 
civilians are being murdered by the thousands. We are shattering every 
global alliance that we have built.
  And we stand alone.
  History will require atonement, but we can choose differently. We 
have a choice right now.
  We are a nation of profound moral power. The power does not live in 
bullets, but it lives in our willingness to return to our deepest 
values, to choose diplomacy when a world expects war, to honor the 
lives of those we claim to protect while refusing to destroy them.
  This is a moment that can and will define us; not who we are, rather, 
who we are choosing to be.
  To achieve a free Iran, a free Cuba, a free Lebanon, a free 
Venezuela, a free Sudan, a free Gaza, diplomacy is our best tool.
  I will not support or give another dime to this war, and I call on 
Congress to remember who we are meant to be.

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