[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17157-17158]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the single most 
important function of the Federal Government: national security and the 
protection of our citizens. The United States is in an ongoing war on 
terror. While we have achieved many successes, such as the recent 
apprehension of Hamid al-Su'aydi, al Qaeda's second-highest ranking 
member in Iraq, we must not relent in the apprehension and destruction 
of global terrorist cells.
  We are making progress in the global war on terror, but there is 
still more to be done. The August 31 deadline for Iran to stop 
producing nuclear fuel has been ignored. And although the United 
States, along with three European allies, is assembling a list of 
sanctions to present to the United Nations, it is no surprise that many 
of the U.N. sanctions and resolutions go ignored.
  It is time the United States made clear that Iran's nuclear ambitions

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must not go unchecked. A well-known philosopher once said that a nation 
never falls but by suicide. If we ignore the current threat of 
terrorism, the nuclear ambitions of rogue nations, we are certainly 
setting our Nation on a path to suicide.
  Mr. Speaker, we must continue to relentlessly pursue and eliminate 
the global terrorist network, as well as ensure that the nuclear 
ambitions of Iran are eradicated. Not only will this aid in the 
stabilization of the Middle East, but in the security of all Americans.

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