[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5617]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             THE IRAN DEAL

  (Mr. DeSANTIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeSANTIS. Mr. Speaker, Ben Rhodes from the administration said 
that the Iran deal would be the ObamaCare of the administration's 
second term. When I heard that, I thought, ``Sheesh,'' because a lot of 
us don't think highly of ObamaCare. We don't think it has worked out 
well. We didn't think the Iran deal was going to work out well. But now 
that actually has a deeper meaning.
  ObamaCare was sold to the American people on a set of deceptions: if 
you like your plan, you can keep it; if you like your doctor, you can 
keep him; you are going to pay $2,500 less per family for health 
insurance. Now, it turns out, so was the Iran deal.
  They concocted a narrative--a false narrative--that, with the 
election of Rouhani, a moderate who really wanted to have an opening, 
this was a once-in-a-generation opportunity for America to seize this 
day and strike a deal with Iran--even though they are the world's 
leading state sponsor of terrorism--and bring peace to the world.
  That was all false. This started before Rouhani was elected. He is 
not a moderate. This was a deal made in conjunction with Iran's hard-
liners; and as we are seeing now with how they are behaving, it is 
benefitting Iran's hard-liners.
  ObamaCare we can fix. It will be tough. But we may not be able to 
recover if Iran gets a nuclear weapon.

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