[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14770]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, we are about to begin a very important and 
difficult debate. Both sides have strong, credible arguments. But I 
would urge those who are opposed to what the President has suggested to 
offer their own alternative. Because it does seem as though, while the 
President has chosen a bad option, it is the best of all the 
alternatives, and that is the difficulty.
  ISIS is expanding exponentially in terms of the size of its force, 
its financial and military wherewithal. If ISIS was, for example, to be 
able to lay siege to Baghdad, where we have a substantial presence of 
American personnel, what do we do then? Clearly we would have to be 
militarily engaged.
  This is a difficult debate, but I would urge those who chose any of 
the credible reasons for voting against it to tell us what they would 
do instead.

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