[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3595]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             BIPARTISANSHIP

  (Ms. KELLY of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, American families expect us to 
work hard to keep them safe. It is our job to work together in 
addressing their national security concerns, not to diminish our 
government's standing for political sport.
  In 2 short months, this Congress has allowed party extremists to push 
us to the brink of having no Homeland Security funding, and now we must 
deal with the dynamic created by misguided Senators whose attempts to 
undermine the President on Iran have set a dangerous precedent that 
compromises the authority of future Presidents to negotiate on matters 
of foreign and national security policy.
  I ask my colleagues: What are we doing? We can't cater to political 
extremes here at home and protect American families from real extremist 
threats abroad. Let's move beyond the politics that divide us and 
commit to working with the President to ensure that Iran does not 
obtain a nuclear weapon. The Illinois families I represent deserve it, 
and the American people demand it.

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