[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 10223-10224]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       IRAN NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
North Carolina (Mr. Holding) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HOLDING. Madam Speaker, the Foreign Affairs Committee heard last 
week about the tremendous challenges that remain in order to verify 
Iran's compliance with any possible final nuclear agreement.
  Should a deal be reached, the most stringent compliance, 
verification, and notification standards must be in place, including 
regular reporting to Congress. As I have said many times on this floor, 
I firmly believe Iran has no inherent right to enrich any nuclear 
material and that any deal should completely dismantle their nuclear 
infrastructure.
  A potential agreement would likely be hailed by this administration--
an administration that puts politics before policy--as a foreign policy 
victory, which leads to an important question: Can this administration 
be trusted to uphold any compliance regime and fully inform Congress 
and the American people of even the smallest infraction by the regime 
in Tehran?
  If Iran commits even the smallest infraction, such as installing one 
centrifuge above the deal's limits, will this administration blow the 
whistle and jeopardize a deal in which they have invested so much 
political capital?
  This administration has shown, most recently with their Taliban 
prisoner swap, that they have no problem flaunting their responsibility 
to timely inform and consult Congress of their actions, but with a deal 
like the Iranian nuclear negotiation that has far-reaching national 
security implications, this administration must not

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leave the people's Representatives in the dark.

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