[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15476]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    IRAN NUCLEAR NEGOTIANTS DEADLINE

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, we are now less than 2 weeks away from 
the Iran nuclear negotiations deadline.
  A deal that allows Iran to enrich any uranium and to keep in place 
its nuclear infrastructure is a bad deal. As long as Iran maintains the 
capability to enrich uranium, it can create a nuclear weapon.
  The administration has always misinterpreted the goal of our 
sanctions. They are to compel Iran to completely abandon its nuclear 
pursuit.
  As the deadline looms and as Republicans are set to control Congress, 
I urge my colleagues to not allow President Obama to trade away the 
only leverage we have over the mullahs in Tehran in exchange for minor 
and easy reversible modifications by Iran on its nuclear weapons 
program. Simply pushing back Iran's breakout time is not in the 
interests of the U.S. national security. Ensuring that there will never 
be an Iranian bomb is in our Nation's interest.

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