[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11798]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Iranian nuclear deal has been 
approved by the U.N. Security Council by a vote of 15-0.
  But wait. Isn't Congress supposed to vote on approval or disapproval 
to make it binding on America? Yes. But the administration, ignoring 
Congress' future vote, went to get the U.N. approval anyway. But this 
deal is bad for the world and the United States.
  The United States foreign policy used to be that Iran would never 
have nuclear weapons. That has changed.
  This deal legitimizes nuclear weapon development in 10 years. It 
allows the lifting of conventional arms embargo in 5 years. It allows 
Iran to develop ICBM capacity in 8 years. It immediately gives Iran 
billions of dollars, money that I believe will be used to give to 
terrorist groups, since Iran is the number one state sponsor of 
terrorism in the world.
  Mr. Speaker, the United Nations doesn't control my vote. The people 
of Texas do. The people I represent think this is a bad deal and don't 
want the United States to be a part of this Iranian nuclear weapon 
development fiasco. And that is the way I will vote, whether the U.N. 
or the administration likes it or not.
  And that is just the way it is.

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