[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9141]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         NEGOTIATION WITH IRAN

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, as the House debates giving guidelines to the 
President on opening up American trade, I rise to urge the President to 
secure a verifiable nuclear agreement with Iran.
  America's response to Iran's nuclear program will be the most 
important foreign policy decision in a generation. This problem grows 
more urgent by the day. On June 1, The New York Times reported that 
Iran's nuclear stockpile had grown by 20 percent over the previous year 
and a half. Secretary of Energy Moniz revealed that Iran was 2 to 3 
months away from a nuclear weapon in April, which was 2 months ago. A 
nuclear agreement without verifiability is not an agreement at all but 
an act of faith in the worst state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
  I want to remind the President that he has repeatedly said that a 
nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained and that 
the United States will do what it must to prevent Iran from obtaining a 
nuclear weapon.
  I hope that this will not be another vanished red line for the 
President, who has also said, ``As President, I don't bluff.''

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