SENATOR TED CRUZ CONGRESS MUST STOP OBAMA'S BAD IRAN DEAL
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SENATOR TED CRUZ CONGRESS MUST STOP OBAMA'S BAD IRAN DEAL
Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: علی حسینی خامنهای pronounced [ʔæˈliː hoseiˈniː xɒːmeneˈʔiː] (
As the head of state, Khamenei is considered the most powerful political authority in Iran.[6][7] Khamenei was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralysed his right arm.[8][9] According to his official website, Khamenei was arrested six times before being sent to exile for three years duringMohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign.[10] Like Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei has also issued a fatwa saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islam.[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei
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senator from Texas ask unanimous consent that the form call be set aside that
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objection
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as president I rise today
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to sound a note of warning but the nation iran
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consider the following facts
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the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei
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has accused america line we learned that the Iranian regime
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has been actively arming and supporting the anti-american hootie rebels
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in Yemen since 2009
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the Iranian regime held up a raid a military equipment
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that feature chance other death to america
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and death to Israel the Iranian regime charged unjustly detained
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American citizen Washington Post reporter
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Jason resign with espionage
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and other crimes including quote
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propaganda against the establishment the defense minister other ran
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declared that IAEA inspectors
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would be barred from all military sites
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even those known to have nuclear facilities
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the Iranian Navy threatened a cargo ship in the Strait support moose
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sailing under the flag of the United States
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the Iranian Navy seized
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another cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz sailing under the flag of our
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ally
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the Marshall Islands the Foreign Minister a veranda accuse the United
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States and our allies are being the biggest danger
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to the international community Great Britain
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informed a UN sanctions panel
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that Iran has an active nuclear procurement network
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linked to two black listed firms
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and the Iranian eighty
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harassed a US warship in military planes
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off the coast of Yemen as president these are not events
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from 1979 or 1983 or 1996
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these are in chronological order
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the aggressive anti-american actions of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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in the last months
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every one of those occurred in the last month
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and at least these are the ones we now love that have been covered in the media
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this relentless drumbeat apostille iti
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has gone on unabated for 36 years and it makes the legislation before this body
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the Iran nuclear agreement Review Act all the more critical
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the bill supporters insist it is the only way to ensure that congress hasn't
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to do say over President Obama's proposed
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iran deal I agree that it is a paramount importance
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to give congress its proper role in an international agreement of this
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magnitude
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and to make clear that President Obama must persuade congress
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and and the american people to support his deal if he wanted to be binding
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which is why I have been supportive of this process so far
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but I'm here to tell you that is the legislation stands
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this legislation is unlikely to stop
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a batter ran deal the problem is an all too familiar one here in washington DC
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which is that the Iranian nuclear agreement Act contains a provision
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inserted at the insistence of Senate Democrats
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which will allow congress to appear
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to vote against the deal while tacitly allowing
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it to go into effect the bill allows Congress to adopt a quote resolution of
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disapproval
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a President Obama's iran deal on the surface that sounds reasonable
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from what we know publicly have the deal
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I certainly disapproval that strongly but a resolution of disapproval under
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this legislation even if it passed a 60-vote threshold
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with grand claims a bipartisanship
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would not be the end to the matter the president would certainly veto it
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and 1-seeded it would require 67 votes in the Senate
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and 290 votes in the house to override that veto
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to wonder
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the white house has lifted its objection
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to this legislation all the president would have to do to force a batter Randy
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lawn America
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is hold 34 Senators in the Democratic Party
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or 145 members a commerce
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if he could do that a bad deal that undermines the national security of this
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country that endangers our friend and ally the nation in israel
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would go into effect and he could claim he was simply following the process that
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congress Creek wire
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that's not an oversight
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that's not an accident this bill as drafted
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will provide some political cover the Senate Democrats to say they have voted
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to provide strict scrutiny
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and congressional approval up in iran deal
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and yet as currently drafted it is a virtual certainty
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that no matter how terrible this deal is
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it will go into effect
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and this legislation is unlikely to stop it
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are first priority should be stopping a bad iran deal
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that jeopardizes the lives of millions of Americans and millions of our allies
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there is nothing more important this body can consider
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not train not the budget there is nothing more important the first
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responsibility in this body
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is to protect the national security in this country
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to protect the lives and safety up men women and children across this country
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and the president iran deal
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deeply jeopardizes the safety of Americans
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from what we know publicly in the details are still shrouded in
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considerable secrecy
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but from what we know publicly under this deal Iran will be allowed to keep
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its enriched uranium
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it will be allowed to keep its centrifuges and reactors
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it will continue its ICBM program
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the only purpose of which is to deliver
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a nuclear weapon to the United States of America Tehran
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will receive even more economic relief reportedly including a fifty
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billion dollar signing bonus mister president who in their right mind would
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give a fifty billion dollar signing bonus
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to Iran it's worth
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noting that even under one of the strictest regimes have international
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sanctions
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Iran was still able to marshal the resources to become one of the world's
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leading state sponsors of terrorism
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we can only imagine what Iran will do with this new new source of funding
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which will certainly
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blow to Hamas to hezbollah and to the hoodies
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as well as to their proxies in Latin America
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mister president I would note
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this deal goes into effect and tens or hundreds of billions of dollars flow
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into a rant including a fifty billion dollar signing bonus
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and that money is given directly to radical islamic terrorists
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the blood
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other men and women and children who'll be murdered by those terrorists
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will be don't directly on hand to this administration
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if we allow tens and hundreds of billions of dollars
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to flow up into the hands of terrorists
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it places complicity for that terrorism
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on this administration tears no topic more serious this body could consider
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than preventing the murder Americans
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the iranians behavior speaks for itself
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they are right now today unlawfully and president
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multiple American citizens pastor Saeed Abedini
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and Amir Hekmati as well as Jason resign and under brutal conditions on their
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withholding information
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on the whereabouts of Robert Levinson they have killed americans across the
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globe
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and they had plotted to kill us here at home and they are explicitly threatening
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to wipe our ally the nation Israel off the map
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indeed in the Mets to this negotiation the senior Iranian general said
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the annihilation of Israel is quote non negotiable
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given that there's no way on earth we should be allowing
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billions of dollars to flow into
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a radical terrorist organization that is declared its object destroying
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Israel which they call the little Satan
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and ultimately destroying America which they call us
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the great satan they are telling us
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they want to kill us not ten years ago or 20 years ago they're telling us this
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right now if history teaches
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any principle with abundant clarity
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is it is that if somebody tells you they want to kill you
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to leave them and they're not being subtle
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these are the people the Obama administration are putting
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on a path to having nuclear weaponry the most fearsome
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weaponry known to man make no mistake
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that's what this deal would do unless
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congress steps and to stop it not to have a showboat not to pretend to
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disapprove
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but to actually stop a bad deal that jeopardizes our safety
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this president to see how this scenario is likely to play out
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we don't have to speculate we need look no further than to the recent history of
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North Korea
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in October 1994
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the clinton administration reached another agreed framework
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with North Korea over that nation's nuclear program then-secretary of State
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Madeleine Albright
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insisted she had gotten a deal that would freeze the military component to
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the program
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and through economic incentives and diplomatic outreach entice the Hermit
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Kingdom
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to join the international community and reject
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their pursuit of nuclear weapons at first all seemed to go well
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as North Korea eagerly accepted the influx of hard currency
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as well as the promise civilian nuclear reactors
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secretary albright accompanied by then policy coordinator for north korea Wendy
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Sherman
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even visited North Korea in 2002 celebrate the progress
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despite all of the diplomatic initiatives
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despite all the champagne toast the North Koreans were cheating
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we now know they were cheating on the framework
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from the get-go whether George W Bush administration figured out
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economic sanctions were reimposed
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but they had no effect neither did yet more additional rounds of negotiations
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while they continue to continue to continue
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to enrich Kim jong-il
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had gotten the resources he needed because the clinton administration relax
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sanctions and allowed
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billions of dollars to flow into his hands and in 2006 North Korea tested its
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first nuclear weapons
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two more tests to follow it 2012 up
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when King John own became the power
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then-secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested
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the Kim Jong on Mike the a transformative leader
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and the state department reportedly assured the president
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that that he would be more concerned with economic improvements
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then with his inherited nuclear program in less than two years
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this to was proven wrong
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Kim jong-un has demonstrated no interest in reform
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he hasn't stand resolutely pursued his father's policy
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just last week we learned from the Chinese
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that North Korea is well on its way to having some
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40 nuclear weapons by 2016
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as their ability to enrich uranium is sophisticates have significantly more
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sophisticated
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that had been believed in addition they are hard at work
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at their ICBM program and may soon be able not only to threaten our regional
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allies
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but also to strike the west coast at the United States
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and with so many weapons in their arsenal
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it seems only logical that this rogue regime
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may in turn off for some of those weapons
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for sale to the highest bidder all of this proves that the fallacy in the
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clinton administration's repeated
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basic assumption that the north koreans would act in their best interest
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economically
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for which for albright Sherman
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meant reaching a diplomatic agreement to achieve economic relief
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unfortunately they were dead wrong and the result is the United States faces an
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escalating strategic threat in the pacific
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we are now in grave danger
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at history repeating itself with Iran Wendy Sherman the very same person who
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negotiated
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the failed North Korea deal the Obama administration brought her back from the
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clinton administration
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to be our lead negotiator
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with Iran think about that
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the person who led the failed North Korea talks the talks that led to north
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korea
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getting nuclear weapons is President Obama's lead negotiator with Iran and
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her negotiation
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will certainly lead to the same outcome
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indeed
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when Secretary Clinton brought Wendy Sherman back when the Sherman probably
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follow the exact same playbook
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for the negotiations that she had followed
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under the clinton administration with respect to North Korea
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you know albert Einstein famously said the definition of insanity is doing the
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same thing over and over again and expecting different results
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we negotiate the same failed deal we will get the same fate
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failed outcome Iran has already enjoyed significant economic relief
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and legitimacy nation on the international stage
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well america's demands have dwindled
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from dismantling Iran's nuclear program to now merely curbing it
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around the edges temporarily and on verifiably
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it may only be a matter of time before secretary John Kerry
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no doubt accompanied by undersecretary Wendy Sherman
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pays a courtesy call on Tehran to echo history and to show the world how quote
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symbolize the whole arrangements
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and only a matter of time until the iranians she just like the north koreans
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their way to a bomb and yet the grim reality is that as bad as the situation
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is with north korea
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with Iran it is qualitatively worse
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the cam dynasty are brutal
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megalomaniacal dictators but they do seem to be motivated at least to some
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extent
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by self preservation and so to some form
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there is at least a possibility a rational deterrence
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and therein lies the fundamental difference with Iran the molars in
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Tehran are radical Islamist
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zealots for whom the a ratification of the little Satan
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Israel and the great satan America is a solemn religious duty
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and with radical religious zealots ordinary cost-benefit analysis
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it doesn't apply the same way with the zealots who glorify death and suicide
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deterrents doesn't work the way it works elsewhere
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death to America is not just a slogan
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it is a religious promise the risk that the ayatollah will use the economic
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windfall a
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billions of dollars courtesy of the US today to pursue nuclear weapons
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that he would either use himself or give to terrorists surrogates to use
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is intolerably high the consequences of this deal mister president could very
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well be
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on Iranian nuclear weapon used in the skies
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of Tel Aviv or no York or Los Angeles
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the consequence of this deal could very well the millions of American
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its murder there is no more serious topic we could be addressing
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now president Obama has two secretaries of state
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have had their chance to negotiate with Iran and they have squandered it on the
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same approach
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that was so spectacularly unsuccessful with north korea
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they changed very little they just replayed the same fail plan once again
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assuming that they can reason with a rogue regime
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they are on the verge of sealing a deal that could result in the most
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significant threat to our nation in the 21st century
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the administration's claims that Tehran will not use their economic windfall to
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pursue a nuclear program there support terrorism
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and that if they do quote snapback sanctions will fix the problems
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are hardly reassuring especially as we know from the example up north korea
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that the opposite result is far more likely having got what they wanted
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the Majlis will straighten out the economic benefits for as long as they
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want
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and then when they are ready test a nuclear bomb
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the iranians know perfectly well
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playing very very good deal this is for them
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and they're doing what they can to prevent congress from disrupting at
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in March I was proud to join
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with 46 a my colleagues in signing a letter written by Senator Tom cotton of
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arkansas
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that explain the constitutional role in the senate
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in approving a treaty or a both houses of Congress
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passing legislation into law for any deal to be binding
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on the United States of America judging from their reaction
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Tehran does not appreciate
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are free system a government
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Foreign Minister Muhammad Sharif responded that quote
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the authors have the letter may not fully understand that in
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international law governments represent the entirety of their respective states
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are responsible for the conduct of foreign affairs
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are required to fulfil the obligations they undertake
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with other states and may not invoke their internal law
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as justification for failure to perform their international
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obligations speaking last week
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to an audience at NYU mister Zarif reiterated his opinion
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that is a matter the international law President Obama would have to abide
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by the dictator whatever deal is struck and that Congress is powerless to stop
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it
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he also said that he quote
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does not deal with congress as a matter the United States law
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misters a reef is wrong it is true in the nation ever ran when you have a
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supreme leader Ayatollah
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with the ability to string you up or shoot you if you disagree
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the word to the supreme leader is binding but we have no supreme leader in
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the United States of America
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we are bound by a constitution and rule of law
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that keeps sovereignty and we the people and if mister Zarate want sanctions
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agreement
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the only way to make that binding
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is to deal with Congress pursuant to the Constitution of the United States
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but if we pass the Iran nuclear agreement review act as it stands right
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now
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he won't have to it's time to tell the american people the truth
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enough games this legislation is not a victory for congress
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this legislation at best
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will slow down slightly a terrible be a
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deal from being put into place that's the very best outcome is a slight delay
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in the president's putting into effect a terrible deal that jeopardizes American
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secured
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it's not a guarantee that President Obama will have to submit his deal
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an honor
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the will of Congress in fact it provides a backdoor pass for a minority in
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congress
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up one-third of Congress to ensure that the deal goes into effect
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over the bipartisan well as majorie and even worse the president will be able to
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claim
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that he satisfied the terms the congress itself set
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that is hardly the message we want to send on Iran's nuclear program and this
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issue is far too important to pass a bad bill
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simply to send a message by prioritizing bipartisan compromise
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over our national security we are endangering the safety in lives
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Americans across this country now I will note
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there is a silver lining in 20 months
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mister Obama will never no longer occupy
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the oval office and in January 2017 when a new president
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enters the White House here she will have full authority
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tourists and any international agreement with Iran that has not been ratified by
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the senator passed into law by both houses of Congress
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mister president any man or woman who is fit to be commander in chief for the
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United States of America
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should be prepared tourists and
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a bad deal with Iran on day one
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no president at the united states should jeopardize
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the lives of millions of americans are millions of our allies
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now congress could act right now to stop a bad deal we could come together
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and assert our constitutional role and we can do so through a very simple
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mechanism right now the current bill
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provides that if Congress doesn't over but ride President Obama's veto
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a terrible a Rand deal goes into effect
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I have joined with senator Pat Toomey a Pennsylvanian filing an amendment
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but simply reverses that default that simply says the president cannot lift
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sanctions on Iran
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unless the deal is affirmatively
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approved by congress that is the constitutional structure must president
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that ought to be
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a provision supported not by
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51 senators are even sixty senators are 67 senators
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that ought to be a provision supported by all 100 senators
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what a strange development in our modern politics that the congress of the united
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states
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is content to effectively neuter itself
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mister president you and I are both members of the Republican Party
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I feel quite confident that if a Republican president were in office
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we would not be content
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to give up the constitutional authority and responsibility
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that is given to this body to ratify treaties are past Los
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and yet I'm sorry to say on the democratic side of the aisle our friends
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are perfectly content
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to forfeit their constitutional authority to the president
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if this deal is a good deal on the substance it most assuredly is not but
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if it is
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the president should be able to get congressional approval and yet the
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reason that Senate Democrats
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are terrified requiring congressional approval
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is they know full well you cannot defend the deal
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that allows Iran to keep tens of thousands of centrifuges to keep in rich
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uranium to keep
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developing their ICBM program to keep
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remaining the world leading space state sponsor of terrorism to keep
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working to annihilate the nation Israel that is not defensible on the merits
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one simple change
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would turn this legislation in the something meaningful one simple change
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that would say
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the president's free to negotiate any deal he likes but before it goes into
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affect
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bring it to congress and get the affirmative agreeable
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agreement to Congress don't have a fig leaf vote and let the president's bad
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big deal go into effect that undermines our national security heaven
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meaningful boat that requires the affirmative approval of congress
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I heard my colleagues
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to adopt the cruise to me amendment
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which is a common sense fix that will give
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this bill real teeth by removing the resolution of disapproval
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and instead
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would allow on Iran deal to go into effect
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only if congress approved the spirited this legislation is purely procedural
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so it is germane to this bill and yet
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Senate Democrats have blocked a vote on it they have refused even to vote on
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this amendment
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all this amendment does
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is ensure that the burden is on President Obama to persuade congress and
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the american people
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that the deal is a good one heard a very minimum is not
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a terrible threat to the national security of the United States of America
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this should be something we come together not as republicans not as
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democrats
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but as senators who have a responsibility to protect our
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constituents to protect the American people
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and to defend the Constitution we should come together
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with one voice and say we will not allow
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a batter ran deal that ensures that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons that could
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be used to murder millions of Americans are millions of our allies
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this should be unanimous
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and so mister president I ask unanimous consent
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that when the senate resumes consideration of HR 1191
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makin that I be allowed to offer my amendment
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number 11 52 and then
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