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HOUSE REPORT 112-267.
BY THE GENTLEMAN FROM
MISSISSIPPI, MR. THOMPSON, ON
WHICH FURTHER PROCEEDINGS WERE
POSTPONED AND ON WHICH THE NAYS
PREVAILED BY VOICE VOTE.
THE CLERK WILL REDESIGNATE THE
PRINTED IN HOUSE REPORT 112-267
OFFERED BY MR. THOMPSON OF
MISSISSIPPI.
A RECORDED VOTE HAS
BEEN REQUESTED.
THOSE IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST
FOR A RECORDED VOTE WILL RISE
AND BE COUNTED.
A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING
ARISEN, A RECORDED VOTE IS
ORDERED.
MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES
BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
THIS WILL BE A TWO-MINUTE VOTE.
[CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY
THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING
INSTITUTE, INC., IN COOPERATION
WITH THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF
ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED
COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE
PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR
EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE
REPRESENTATIVES.]
YEAS ARE 182.
THE NAYS ARE 218.
THE AMENDMENT IS NOT ADOPTED.
THE CHAIR REMINDS MEMBERS THAT
WE ARE PLANNING ON HAVING
TWO-MINUTE VOTES FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THESE.
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS IS THE
REQUEST FOR A RECORDED VOTE ON
AMENDMENT NUMBER 6 PRINTED IN
HOUSE REPORT 112-267 BY THE
GENTLEWOMAN FROM CALIFORNIA,,
MRS. NAPOLITANO, ON WHICH
FURTHER PROCEEDINGS WERE
POSTPONE AND ON WHICH THE
NAYSES PREVAILED BY VOICE VOTE.
THE CLERK WILL REDESIGNATE THE
AMENDMENT NUMBER 6
PRINTED IN HOUSE REPORT 112-267
OFFERED BY MRS. NAPOLITANO OF
A RECORDED VOTE IS
REQUESTED.
THOSE IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST
FOR A RECORDED VOTE WILL RISE
AND BE COUNTED.
A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING
ORDERED.
MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES
BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
THIS IS A TWO-MINUTE VOTE.
[CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY
INSTITUTE, INC., IN COOPERATION
WITH THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF
ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED
COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE
PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR
EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE
REPRESENTATIVES.]
ON THIS VOTE THE
YEAS ARE 363.
THE NAYS --
ON THIS VOTE THE
YEAS ARE 364.
THE NAYS ARE 37.
THE AMENDMENT IS ADOPTED.
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS IS THE
REQUEST FOR A RECORDED VOTE ON
AMENDMENT NUMBER 7 PRINTED IN
THE HOUSE REPORT 112-267 BY THE
GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK, MR.
BISHOP ON WHICH FURTHER
PROCEEDINGS WERE POSTPONED AND
WHICH THE NAYS PREVAILED BY
THE CLERK WILL REDESIGNATE THE
AMENDMENT NUMBER 7
PRINTED IN HOUSE REPORT 112-267
OFFERED BY MR. BISHOP OF NEW
YORK.
A RECORDED VOTE'S
BEEN REQUESTED.
THOSE IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST
FOR A RECORDED VOTE WILL RISE
A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING
ARISEN, A RECORDED VOTE IS
ORDERED.
MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES
BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
THIS WILL BE A TWO-MINUTE VOTE.
[CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY
THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING
INSTITUTE, INC., IN COOPERATION
WITH THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF
ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED
COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE
PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR
COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS
EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED BY THE
REPRESENTATIVES.]
ON THIS VOTE THE YEAS
ARE -- ON THIS VOTE THE AYES ARE
174.
THE NAYS ARE 225.
THE AMENDMENT IS NOT ADOPTED.
THE AMENDMENT -- THE UNFINISHED
BUSINESS IS THE REQUEST FOR
RECORDED VOTE AMENDMENT NUMBER 8
PRINTED IN HOUSE REPORT 111-26
-- 112-267 BY THE GENTLEWOMAN
FROM NEW YORK, MS. SLAUGHTER,
WHICH FURTHER PROCEEDINGS WERE
POSTPONED AND ON WHICH THE NAYS
PREVAILED BY VOICE VOTE.
THE CLERK WILL REDESIGNATE THE
AMENDMENT.
AMENDMENT NUMBER 8,
PRINTED IN HOUSE REPORT NUMBER
112-267, OFFERED BY MS.
SLAUGHTER OF NEW YORK.
BEEN REQUESTED.
THOSE IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST
FOR RECORDED VOTE WILL RISE AND
BE COUNTED.
A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING
ORDERED.
MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES
BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE.
THIS ALSO IS A TWO-MINUTE VOTE.
[CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY THE
NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE,
INC., IN COOPERATION WITH THE
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF
ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED
COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE
PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR
COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS EXPRESSLY
PROHIBITED BY THE U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.]
ON THIS VOTE THE YEAS
ARE 161.
THE NAYS ARE 237.
THE AMENDMENT IS NOT ADOPTED.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM NEW JERSEY RISE?
MR. CHAIRMAN, I
MOVE THE COMMITTEE DO NOW RISE.
THE QUESTION IS ON
THE MOTION THAT THE COMMITTEE
SO MANY AS ARE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THOSE OPPOSED, NO.
THE AYES HAVE IT.
THE MOTION IS ADOPTED.
ACCORDINGLY, THE COMMITTEE
RISES.
THE
CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE
WHOLE HOUSE ON THE STATE OF THE
UNION REPORTS THAT THE COMMITTEE
-- THAT THAT COMMITTEE HAS HAD
UNDER CONSIDERATION H.R. 2838
AND HAS COME TO NO RESOLUTION
THEREON.
GENTLEMAN FROM NEW JERSEY RISE?
MR. SPEAKER, I ASK
UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT ALL
MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE
LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND
EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND INCLUDE
EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL ON H.R.
2838.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS SEEK
RECOGNITION?
I SEND TO THE DESK A
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AND ASK
UNANIMOUS CONSENT FOR ITS
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION.
THE
CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF
THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION 86, CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CLERK
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TO MAKE CORRECTIONS IN THE
ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 2061.
IS
THERE OBJECTION TO THE
CONSIDERATION OF THE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION?
WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE
TO.
AND THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS
LAID UPON THE TABLE.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
RECOGNITION?
MR. SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS
CONSENT TO TAKE FROM THE
SPEAKER'S TABLE THE BILL S. 1487
AND ASK THE HOUSE FOR ITS
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION IN THE
HOUSE.
THE
THE BILL.
SENATE 1487, AN ACT
TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF
HOMELAND SECURITY IN
COORDINATION WITH THE SECRETARY
OF STATE TO ESTABLISH A PROGRAM
TO ISSUE ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC
COOPERATION BUSINESS TRAVEL
CARDS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
IS
THERE OBJECTION TO THE
CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL?
WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE BILL IS
READ A THIRD TIME AND PASSED AND
THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID
UPON THE TABLE.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE?
MR. SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS
CONSENT THAT THE GENTLEMAN FROM
WISCONSIN, MR. RYAN, BE
PERMITTED TO REVISE AND EXTEND
HIS REMARKS AND INSERT
EXTRANEOUS MATERIALS INTO THE
RECORD.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE?
MR. SPEAKER, I
ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT, ONE,
WHEN THE HOUSE ADJOURNS TODAY IT
ADJOURN TO MEET AT 10:00 A.M. ON
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011.
TWO, WHEN THE HOUSE ADJOURNS ON
DAY IT ADJOURN TO MEET AT
2:30 P.M. ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
10, AND, THREE, WHEN THE HOUSE
ADJOURNS ON THAT DAY IT ADJOURN
TO MEET AT 2:00 P.M. ON MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 14.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
THE
CHAIR ANNOUNCES THE SPEAKER'S
APPOINTMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION
100 IT OF THE INTELLIGENCE
AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL
YEAR 2003 T.L. 107-306, AS
AMENDED BY SECTION 701-A-3 OF
THE INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION
ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010, P.L.
111-259, AND THE ORDER OF THE
HOUSE OF JANUARY 5, 2011, OF THE
FOLLOWING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE TO
THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE
REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OF THE
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.
MR. CONAWAY OF TEXAS.
THE
HOUSE WILL BE IN ORDER.
MEMBERS, PLEASE TAKE YOUR
CONVERSATIONS OFF THE FLOOR.
THE CHAIR'S PREPARED TO
ENTERTAIN ONE-MINUTE REQUESTS.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA
RISE?
UNANIMOUS CONSENT
TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
THANK YOU.
THE
HOUSE WILL BE IN ORDER.
MEMBERS, PLEASE TAKE YOUR
CONVERSATIONS OFF THE FLOOR.
THE GENTLEMAN MAY PROCEED.
MADAM SPEAKER, ON
OCTOBER 9, 2011, GOOD FRIEND AND
LONG-TIME SCOUTER, JOHN MILTON
KREINER II PASSED AWAY AT THE
AGE OF 53.
A LIFE MARKED WITH
ACCOMPLISHMENT AND OVERCOMING
BARRIERS, JOHN WAS BORN IN 1958
WITH DOWN SYNDROME.
DESPITE LIFE'S CHALLENGES, JOHN
AND HIS PARENTS ALWAYS FOCUSED
ON THE POSSIBLE NOT THE
LIMITATIONS.
HE GRADUATED FROM STATE COLLEGE
AREA HIGH SCHOOL AND WENT ON TO
RECEIVE CERTIFICATION IN HIRAM
G. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AND WAS
LATER EMPLOYED WITH THE STATE
COLLEGE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT.
A MEMBER OF TROOP 339, BOY
SCOUTS OF AMERICA, JOHN RECEIVED
THE EAGLE SCOUT WITH GOLD PALM,
SILL VER, HONORARY CAMP
HE ATTENDED FOUR B.S.A. NATIONAL
MEMBER.
WAS AN HONOR MEMBER OF THE LODGE
OF THE ARROW AND HONORARY MEMBER
OF PENN STATE UNIVERSITY'S AL
PHI OMEGA.
HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GRACE
LUTHERAN CHURCH WHERE HE SERVED
AS USHER, GREETER, AND MEMBERLE
OF SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS AND STATE
SPECIAL OLYMPIC SILVER, BRONZE,
AND GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN
SWIMMING.
HE WAS A TRUE INSPIRATION TO ALL
WHO KNEW HIM.
WELL-DONE.
I YIELD BACK.
GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE?
ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE
MINUTE.
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
MADAM SPEAKER, DURING
THE HOT DAYS OF SUMMER YOU THE
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS WENT TO
BATTLE WITH THE VETERANS
THEY WERE CLAIMING THE V.A. WAS
PREVENTING THE FREE EXERCISE OF
RELIGION AT THE NATIONAL
CEMETERY IN HOUSTON.
THE V.F.W. SAYS THE CHAPEL AT
THE CEMETERY WAS CLOSED.
THE CHAPEL BECAME A STORAGE
SHED.
THE MEMBERS ALSO SAID THE
DIRECTOR OF THE CEMETERY
CENSORED PRAYERS AND PROHIBITED
THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONY DURING
THE BURIAL OF VETERANS.
THE V.F.W. SUED THE V.A. AND THE
V.A. NATURALLY DENIED THE WHOLE
THING.
APPROVED AND AGREED TO AN ORDER
REQUIRING THE CHAPEL TO BE
REOPENED, THE BIBLE, THE CROSS,
THE STAR OF DAVID TO BE RETURNED
AND SAID THAT THE V.A. MUST NOT
INTERFERE WITH FREE SPEECH OR
THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AT
BURIALS.
MADAM SPEAKER, IT IS IRONIC THAT
AMERICANS HAVE GONE TO WAR,
FOUGHT FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
CONSTITUTION, THEN WHEN THEY
COME HOME THEY FACE A GOVERNMENT
THAT IS HOSTILE AND THE DENIAL
OF FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO THE
CITIZENS WHEN THESE VETERANS ARE
BURIED IN V.A. CEMETERIES.
NOW THE VETERANS HAVE WON A
BATTLE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
THAT WANTED TO DENY THEM THE
AMERICAN FREEDOMS THEY FOUGHT
FOR IN LANDS FAR, FAR AWAY AND
THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS.
I YIELD BACK.
THE
GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM NEBRASKA RISE?
TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE
MINUTE, REVISE AND EXTEND.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
MADAM SPEAKER, THE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
RECENTLY PROPOSED A RULE THAT
WOULD REQUIRE ALL HEALTH PLANS
TO COVER IN FULL AND
CONSEQUENTLY EVERY AMERICAN TO
SUBSIDIZE PROCEDURES AND DRUGS
THAT ARE UNRELATED TO MEDICAL
NECESSITY, TRADITIONALLY
CONSIDERED ELECTIVES AND THAT
CAN BE VERY ETHICALLY DIVISIVE
FOR MANY AMERICANS.
WHY WHEN 75
CENTS ON EVERY PUBLIC HEALTH
CARE DOLLAR SPENT ON THE
MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC
CONDITIONS, SUCH AS CANCER, OR
HEART DISEASE AND STROKE, IS THE
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
DEPARTMENT PRIORITIZING FREE
STERILIZATION, FOR INSTANCE?
THIS IS DISTINCTLY UNRELATED TO
OUR NATION'S PRIORITY HEALTH
CARE CHALLENGES.
I CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THAT THIS IS
IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN AND MOST
PERNICIOUSLY AFFECTS FAITH-BASED
INSTITUTIONS WHO ARE THE
BACKSTOP FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE
SOCIETY.
MANY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
HAVE EXPRESSED VERY SERIOUS
CONCERNS ABOUT THIS, NO AMERICAN
SHOULD BE FORCED TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN THEIR FAITH AND THEIR
JOB.
THE
GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE
GENTLEMAN FROM NORTH DAKOTA
RISE?
PERMISSION TO ADDRESS
THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
MR. SPEAKER, WITH EACH
NEW OVERREACHING
ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL MANDATE, THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CONTINUES
TO BURDEN THE STATES.
WITH UNNECESSARY COST AND
REGULATIONS THAT ARE HINDERING
JOB CREATION.
THAT'S WHY TODAY I INTRODUCED
THE REGIONAL HAZE FEDERALISM
THIS WILL REIN IN THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION AND PREVENT A
FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF STATE HAZE
MANAGEMENT.
STATES LIKE NORTH DAKOTA
CONTINUE TO ACT RESPONSIBLY TO
CREATE WELL RESEARCH PLANS AND
TO IMPLEMENT E.P.A.-MANDATED
POLICIES.
YET IT'S CLEAR THAT THESE
EFFORTS TO PLAY BY THE RULES
AREN'T ENOUGH FOR THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION.
THE ADMINISTRATION'S OVERREACH
WOULD COST NORTH DAKOTA OVER
$700 MILLION.
THOSE COSTS WILL DIRECTLY
INCREASE RATES TO OUR CONSUMERS
ACROSS THE STATE.
IF WE ARE TRULY COMMITTED TO
CREATING JOBS AND LOWERING
ENERGY COSTS WE NEED TO EMPOWER
THE STATES AND REIN IN PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S OVERREACHING E.P.A.
THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD
THE REMAINDER OF MY TIME.
THE
GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
ARE THERE FURTHER REQUESTS FOR
ONE-MINUTES?
THE CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE
THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL REQUESTS.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
REQUESTED FOR MR. DANNY DAVIS OF
ILLINOIS FOR TODAY, MR. HEINRICH
OF NEW MEXICO FOR TODAY AND MR.
JONES OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR
TODAY AFTER 11:30 A.M.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, THE REQUESTS ARE
UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED
POLICY OF JANUARY 5, 2011, THE
GENTLEMAN FROM NEW JERSEY, MR.
ANDREWS, IS RECOGNIZED FOR 60
MINUTES AS THE DESIGNEE OF THE
MINORITY LEADER.
THANK YOU, MADAM
SPEAKER.
I'D LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF
THE HOUSE STAFF THAT ARE STAYING
BEYOND VOTING HOURS FOR OUR
OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AND I
WILL REWARD YOUR
EFFORTS WITH BREVITY.
THIS IS THE END OF ANOTHER
DIFFICULT WEEK FOR A LOT OF
AMERICANS.
FOR TOO MANY AMERICANS IT'S
ANOTHER WEEK WITHOUT A PAYCHECK.
FOR MANY AMERICANS THIS IS THE
WEEK THAT THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT
BENEFITS EXPIRE AND THEY WILL
HAVE NO INCOME NEXT WEEK.
FOR MANY AMERICANS THIS IS THE
LAST WEEKEND THEY'LL BE IN THEIR
HOME BECAUSE THE FORECLOSURE IS
ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED UPON AND
SADLY FOR SO MANY AMERICANS THIS
MIGHT BE THE LAST TIME THAT HE
OR SHE CLOSES THE DOORS ON THEIR
THIS TIME THEY CLOSE IT FOR
GOOD.
OUR CONSTITUENTS AND NEIGHBORS
ARE HURTING.
HURTING DESPERATELY.
AND I THINK THERE'S BEEN FAR TOO
LITTLE ATTENTION PAID TO THOSE
PROBLEMS HERE IN THIS
INSTITUTION.
I HOPE THAT WHEN WE RETURN AFTER
WHAT IS OUR 12TH RECESS OF THE
YEAR WE WILL GET TO WORK ON THE
PROBLEM FOR OUR COUNTRY AND
TRY TO PUT OUR PEOPLE BACK TO
WORK.
AS VITAL AS THAT JOBS CRISIS IS,
WE CAN NEVER PUT OUR COUNTRY IN
A SITUATION WHERE WE ARE NOT
PAYING ATTENTION TO THREATS TO
OUR SECURITY HERE AT HOME AND
AROUND THE WORLD.
AND I DO WANT TO SPEND A FEW
MOMENTS THIS AFTERNOON TALKING
ABOUT WHAT I THINK IS A VERY
SIGNIFICANT THREAT AND THAT IS
THE THREAT OF IRAN DEVELOPING A
NUCLEAR WEAPON.
IT IS TO THE CREDIT OF THE
CHAIRWOMAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS COMMITTEE, FOREIGN
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, MS.
ROS-LEHTINEN, AND THE SENIOR
DEMOCRAT RANKING MEMBER, MR.
BERMAN, THAT YESTERDAY
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ON
THAT COMMITTEE CAME TOGETHER TO
PASS WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE VERY
POWERFUL LEGISLATION THAT WOULD
WORK AGAINST THE PROPAGATION OF
NUCLEAR WEAPONS BY IRAN.
AND I THINK THAT LEGISLATION IS
SOMETHING THAT I HOPE WILL BE
BROUGHT TO THE FLOOR PROMPTLY
AND SUPPORTED BY MEMBERS FROM
BOTH SIDES.
THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT MORE WE COULD DO
AND WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO DO
IT.
THIS IS ANOTHER PRODUCTIVE DAY
THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTRY.
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO WORK IN OUR
CITIES AND OUR SMALL TOWNS AND
OUR SUBURBS.
THEY ARE GOING TO CLASSES AT
UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS, THEY
ARE VISITING THEIR LOVED ONES IN
HOSPITALS.
IT IS, THANK GOD, A NORMAL DAY
IN AMERICA WHERE WE CAN DO THE
THINGS WE WANT TO DO.
BUT YOU KNOW, A DAY 10 YEARS AGO
IN SEPTEMBER OF 2001 STARTED
LIKE A NORMAL DAY, TOO.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, WAS A
BEAUTIFUL, BLUE-SKY, CRYSTALINE
DAY AND IT ENDED AS ONE OF THE
WORST DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR
COUNTRY AND THE PAIN OF THAT DAY
IS FELT BY PEOPLE AROUND THIS
COUNTRY, NOT JUST IN THE NEW
YORK METROPOLITAN REGION, NOT
JUST IN WASHINGTON, D.C., NOT
JUST IN PENNSYLVANIA, BUT AROUND
THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE
WORLD.
I FEAR AND DREAD THAT A SIMILAR
FROM A SCENARIO
ALMOST TOO TERRIBLE TO IMAGINE.
IMAGINE A GROUP OF TERRORISTS
WHO ARE ABLE TO ASSEMBLE A
SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY BUT
NOT AN IMPOSSIBLE AMOUNT OF
MONEY.
LET'S SAY ABOUT $2 MILLION.
AND THEY'RE ABLE TO COMMANDEER
THE SERVICES OF SCIENTISTS WHO
ARE EVIL ENOUGH OR HUNGRY ENOUGH
THAT THEY WOULD LEND THEIR
SKILLS TO THE DESTRUCTIVE TASK
OF MAKING A SMALL NUCLEAR
DEVICE, WHAT WE CALL A SMALL
IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE, A
NUCLEAR I.E.D.
AND THEY DON'T NEED A MISSILE TO
DELIVER THIS NUCLEAR I.E.D.,
THEY NEED A UHAUL TRUCK.
SO THEY ASSEMBLE THE I.E.D. AND
THEY LOAD IT ON THE BACK OF THE
UHAUL TRUCK AND THEY DRIVE IT TO
A PLACE WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF
INNOCENT AMERICANS.
THE CAPITOL MALL RIGHT OUTSIDE
OF THIS BUILDING.
A SPORTS ARENA FOR AN NFL
FOOTBALL GAME.
TIME SQUARE -- TIMES SQUARE.
A CHURCH OR A SYNAGOGUE OR A
MOSQUE WHERE PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO
WORSHIP.
AND THEY DETONATE THE NUCLEAR
I.E.D., THE CONSEQUENCES ARE
HUGE NUMBERS OF DEATHS IN THE
IMMEDIATE AREA OF THE EXPLOSION,
A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF PEOPLE
SICKENED AND EVENTUALLY DYING
FROM NUCLEAR POISONING, THE
CONTAMINATION OF THE AREA OF THE
EXPLOSION AND A DEVASTATING BLOW
TO THE PSYCHE OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
IS THIS POSSIBLE?
WELL, IT'S POSSIBLE ONLY IF
TERRORISTS GET ACCESS TO WHAT'S
CALLED FIZZLE MATERIAL FROM
WHICH YOU CAN MAKE A NUCLEAR
BOMB.
FISILE MATERIAL CAN ONLY COME
FROM THREE PLACES.
YOU CAN MAKE IT AND IT TAKES A
VERY SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX TO DO SO.
YOU CAN STEAL IT, THAT'S A
PROBLEM THAT WE'RE WORKING ON
TRYING TO PREVENT.
OR YOU CAN HAVE A GOVERNMENT
THAT GIVES IT TO YOU.
BECAUSE THAT GOVERNMENT IS
COMMITTED TO A TERRORIST AGENDA.
MY COLLEAGUES UNDERSTAND THAT
THE RISK OF IRANIAN NUCLEAR
PROLIFERATION INCLUDES FIRING A
MISSILE AT U.S. TROOPS OR U.S.
ALLIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
RISK.
BUT IT'S NOT LIMITED TO THAT
RISK.
I THINK THE GREATEST RISK OF
IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION IS
THE RISK OF FISSILE MATERIAL
BEING HANDED OFF BY THE IRANIAN
GOVERNMENT TO A TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION THAT THEN ASSEMBLES
A SMALL NUCLEAR I.E.D. AND
BRINGS HAVOC AND DEATH TO
INNOCENT PEOPLE IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
HOW DO WE STOP THAT?
HOW DO WE PREVENT THAT FROM
HAPPENING?
THAT WAS THE FOCUS OF THE EFFORT
OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS
COMMITTEE -- FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE YESTERDAY AND I THINK
IT SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF OUR
COUNTRY AND CIVILIZED COUNTRIES
AROUND THE WORLD.
NOW, IT'S IMPORTANT TO
THE HISTORY OF THIS
PROBLEM, THE CONTEXT OF THIS
PROBLEM, THE RISK OF THIS
PROBLEM AND WHAT I BELIEVE IS A
SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM.
THE HISTORY IS THIS, OF ALL THE
NATIONS IN THE WORLD, ONLY ONE
HAS CONDUCTED A NUCLEAR WEAPONS
RESEARCH PROGRAM AND
SYSTEMATICALLY LIED ABOUT THE
FACT THAT IT'S DONE SO.
AND THAT ONE NATION IS THE
REPUBLIC OF IRAN.
THE SOURCE IS A DOCUMENT FROM
THE IAEA, THE INTERNATIONAL
AGENCY THAT MONITORS NUCLEAR
DEVELOPMENT, FROM SEPTEMBER 24
OF 2005, WHEN THAT ORGANIZATION
SAID THAT THEY WERE UNCERTAIN OF
IRAN'S MOTIVES IN FAILING TO
MAKE IMPORTANT DECLARATIONS OVER
AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME AND
IN PURSUING A POLICY OF
CONCEALMENT UNTIL OCTOBER OF
2003.
A POLITICAL VIEW OF
AN AMERICAN LEGISLATOR OR AN
IDEOLOGICAL POSITION OF A
JOURNAL, THIS IS THE OFFICIAL
STATEMENT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
AGENCY THAT WATCHES NUCLEAR
WEAPONS.
THAT'S THE HISTORY.
ALONG -- A LONG HISTORY OF
DECEIT AND CONCEALMENT.
WHAT'S THE CONTEXT?
HOW IS IRAN BEHAVING IN THE
PRESENT STATE OF WORLD AFFAIRS?
FIRST OF ALL, THEY'RE KILLING
UNITED STATES TROOPS IN IRAQ.
HERE'S WHAT THE STATE
DEPARTMENT'S 2010 COUNTRY
TERRORISM REPORT HAD TO SAY
ABOUT IRAN.
DESPITE ITS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT
THE STABILIZATION OF IRAQ,
IRANIAN AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO
PROVIDE LETHAL SUPPORT INCLUDING
WEAPONS, TRAINING, FUNDING AND
GUIDANCE TO IRAQI ***'A MILITANT
GROUPS THAT TARGET U.S. AND
IRAQI FORCES.
THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT'S
ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN AN ATTEMPT
AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN
IRAQ AS WE SPEAK TODAY.
SECONDLY, THEIR BRUTALITY
EXTENDS TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
SYSTEMATICALLY, LET ME HIGHLIGHT
JUST ONE CHILLING AND HORRIFYING
EXAMPLE REPORTED BY AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL ON THE 11TH OF
OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR.
OF 2001.
AN ACTRESS HAS BECOME THE LATEST
INDIVIDUAL TO FACE A SENTENCE OF
FLOGGING.
FLOGGING.
SHE WAS SENTENCED ON OR ABOUT
OCTOBER 8 OF 2011 TO A YEAR IN
PRISON AND 90 LASHES.
THIS IS NOT THE MIDDLE AGES.
I'M NOT READING FROM A HISTORIC
TREATS I FROM THE YEAR 800.
I'M READING FROM A SENTENCE
PASSED DOWN BY AN IRANIAN COURT
LESS THAN A MONTH AGO.
WHAT WAS HER OFFENSE?
WAS SHE APPEARED IN
A FILM CALLED "MY TEHRAN FOR
SALE" IN WHICH SHE APPEARED IN
ONE SCENE WITHOUT THE MANDATORY
HEAD COVERING WHICH WOMEN IN
IRAN ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR AND
APPEARS TO DRINK ALCOHOL IN
ANOTHER.
HER HUSBAND DENIED THAT SHE HAD
CONSUMED ANY ALCOHOL BUT THE
EXACT CHARGE WAS LEVIED AND THIS
WOMAN IS IN PRISON AS WE SPEAK
AND ONCE A MONTH IS BEATEN
BECAUSE SHE APPEARED IN A MOVIE
IN A WAY THAT WAS CULTURALLY
OFFENSIVE TO THE REGIME.
THIS IS A REGIME SEEKING A
NUCLEAR WEAPON.
WHAT ELSE IN THE CONTEXT?
WHAT ELSE ARE THEY UP TO?
WELL, LET'S LISTEN TO THE
STATEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT OF
HE'S NOT THE PERSON WHO REALLY
RUNS THE COUNTRY.
THE SO-CALLED REVOLUTIONARY
COUNCIL DOES, BUT HE'S INVOLVED
IN ITS GOVERNMENT, PRESIDENT
AHMADINEJAD, HERE'S WHAT HE
SAID.
THANKS TO PEOPLE'S WISHES AND
GOD'S WILL THE TREND FOR THE
EXISTENCE OF THE ZIONIST REGIME
IS DOWNWARDS.
AND THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS
PROMISED.
AND WHAT ALL NATIONS WANT.
JUST AS THE SOVIET UNION WAS
WIPED OUT AND TODAY DOES NOT
EXIST, SO WILL THE ZIONIST
REGIME SOON BE WIPED OUT.
THIS IS THE REGIME THAT'S
ATTEMPTING TO ACQUIRE A NUCLEAR
WEAPON.
AND FINALLY WE WERE ALL, I
THINK, STUNNED BY THE REPORTS
LAST WEEK THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO
ALLEGEDLY HAD TIES TO THE
IRANIAN GOVERNMENT WERE INDICTED
IN THE AMERICAN COURT SYSTEM FOR
ALLEGEDLY PLOTTING THE
ASSASSINATION OF THE SAUDI
ARABIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED
STATES ON U.S. SOIL.
NOW, MADAM SPEAKER, I WOULD
HASTEN TO POINT OUT AS YOU WELL
KNOW, IN OUR SYSTEM THESE ARE
ALLEGATIONS, NOT FACTS.
AND SO WE CANNOT SAY THAT THESE
THINGS ARE TRUE, BUT I CAN
SCARCELY THINK OF A TIME IN THE
HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY WHERE WE
HAVE INDICTED FOREIGN NATIONALS
OR U.S. CITIZENS FOR AN ALLEGED
CONSPIRACY TO *** A FOREIGN
DIPLOMAT ON OUR SOIL.
PERHAPS THESE INDIVIDUALS WILL
BE FOUND NOT GUILTY.
PERHAPS THEY WILL BE FOUND
GUILTY.
BUT THE FACT THAT THERE WAS
PROBABLE CAUSE TO MAKE SUCH AN
ASSERTION IS DEEPLY SHOCKING AND
DISCONCERTING.
THIS IS THE REGIME THAT IS
ATTEMPTING TO ACHIEVE A NUCLEAR
WEAPON.
NOW, HOW CLOSE ARE THEY?
HERE'S A REPORT FROM MAY 24 OF
2011.
THE WORLD'S GLOBAL NUCLEAR
INSPECTION INDUSTRY -- AGENCY,
THE IAEA, FRUSTRATED BY IRAN'S
REFUSAL TO ANSWER QUESTIONS,
REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON
TUESDAY THAT IT, MEANING THE
U.N. AGENCY THAT WATCHES NUCLEAR
WEAPONS, IT POSSESSES EVIDENCE
THAT TEHRAN HAS CONDUCTED WORK
SOPHISTICATED
NUCLEAR TRIGGERING TECHNOLOGY
THAT EXPERTS SAID COULD BE USED
FOR ONLY ONE PURPOSE -- SETTING
OFF A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
THIS IS THE REGIME THAT SAYS IT
IS TRYING TO ACQUIRE CENTRIFUGES
AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS TO
CREATE NUCLEAR POWER FOR ITS
PEOPLE.
BUT THE QUOTE THAT I JUST READ
IS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
AGENCY, NOT FROM U.S.
INTELLIGENCE, NOT FROM OUR
ALLIES, NOT FROM THOSE WHO
OPPOSE THE IRANIAN REGIME, BUT
FROM THE NEUTRAL INTERNATIONAL
AGENCY WHICH, FRANKLY, HAS
CRITICIZED THE UNITED STATES ON
OCCASION, FROM THE NEUTRAL
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY TALKING
ABOUT WHAT THE IRANANS ARE UP
TO.
NOW, IT'S CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
AS TO HOW CLOSE THEY ARE TO
RECEIVING THIS, AND WE ALL UNDER
AN OATH NOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION, BUT THE
PUBLIC RECORD IS REPLETE WITH
INFORMATION THAT THE IRANANS ARE
AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING PURSUING
SUCH A WEAPON.
HERE'S AN ACADEMIC ANALYSIS THAT
TALKS ABOUT HOW SUCH A WEAPON
COULD BE USED BY A TERRORIST
GROUP THAT WOULD BE THE
BENEFICIARY OF AN IRANIAN
HANDOFF OF FISSILE MATERIAL.
BASED UPON THIS PROFESSOR'S
ANALYSIS, THIS IS WRITTEN BY THE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE
PROJECT ON MANAGING THE ADAM
JEFFREY LEWIS FROM THE JOHN F.
KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT AT
THE ARTICLE WAS CALLED THE
ECONOMICS OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM.
HERE'S WHAT PROFESSOR LEWIS HAD
TO SAY.
A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION LIKE AL
QAEDA COULD PLAUSIBLY BUILD A
NUCLEAR WEAPON FOR LESS THAN $2
MILLION.
NOW, OF COURSE THAT'S $2 MILLION
AFTER YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE
FISSILE MATERIAL, OR BOUGHT IT.
WELL, SUCH AN ORGANIZATION WOULD
NOW HAVE A WILLING PARTNER IN
TEHRAN THAT WOULD OWN AND BE
ABLE TO PRODUCE SUCH FISSILE
MATERIAL.
WE HAVE AN URGENT ECONOMIC
CRISIS IN OUR COUNTRY, WE NEED
TO FIX IT.
WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER PROBLEMS
WE NEED TO FIX, BUT THIS IS
HAPPENING.
AND WE CANNOT LET OUR ATTENTION
TO OUR ECONOMIC CRISIS TAKE OUR
ATTENTION AWAY FROM OUR DUTY TO
PREVENT THIS KIND OF CATASTROPHE
FROM HAPPENING, INNOCENT PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD.
WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
WHAT'S THE SOLUTION?
HOW DO WE GO FORWARD IN A WAY
THAT STOPS THE IRANIANS FROM
GETTING THIS FISSILE MATERIAL.
TO THE CREDIT OF THIS CONGRESS,
BOTH PARTIES, AND PRESIDENT
OBAMA, THE UNITED STATES IMPOSED
BILATERAL SANCTIONS ON THE
IRANIANS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF
AGO.
AND TO THE CREDIT OF THE UNITED
NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL, THE
UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
IMPOSED MODEST SANCTIONS ON THE
IRANIANS ABOUT A YEAR AGO.
THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT
THESE SANCTIONS ARE BEGINNING TO
WORK.
THE UNITED STATES SANCTIONS
WHICH WERE LED BY THEN RANKING
MEMBER ROS-LEHTINEN NOW
AND BY THEN CHAIRMAN
BERMAN, NOW RANKING MEMBER, AND
FRANKLY THAT RELIED UPON THE
WORK OF SENATOR KIRK IN THE
SENATE, FOCUSED ON A GASOLINE
EMBARGO.
IT'S AN ODD FACT BUT IRAN, WHICH
IS A COUNTRY WHICH EXPORTS CRUDE
OIL, IMPORTS ABOUT 40% OF ITS
GASOLINE.
BECAUSE ITS ECONOMY IS SO
DYSFUNCTIONAL THAT IT CANNOT
REFINE ITS OWN PRODUCTS.
BEFORE THE U.S. SANCTIONS WERE
IMPOSED, THE PRICE OF GASOLINE
-- A GALLON OF GASOLINE HEAVILY
SUBSIDIZED IN IRAN WAS 38 CENTS
A GALLON.
TODAY IT'S $1.51 A GALLON.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
IT MEANS THAT AN IRANIAN CITIZEN
WHO USED TO HAVE TO WORK ONE
HOUR TO FILL THEIR GAS TANK ONCE
A WEEK NOW HAS TO WORK FIVE
HOURS TO FILL THEIR GAS TANK
ONCE A WEEK.
THIS IS NOT A HUGE SACRIFICE,
BUT IT'S MAKING A DENT IN THE
ECONOMY OF IRAN.
IS OUR INTENTION, OBVIOUSLY,
NOT TO IN ANY WAY PUNISH OR
JEOPARDIZE THE WELL-BEING OF THE
IRANIAN PEOPLE.
THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS.
AND WE WANT THEM TO BE OUR
FRIENDS AND ALLIES FOR YEARS TO
COME, BUT THE SIMPLE AND I THINK
COMPELLING LOGIC OF THESE
SANCTIONS IS WE ARE COMPELLING
THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN PURSUING THEIR NUCLEAR
WEAPONS AMBITIONS BUT SUFFERING
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES, OR
ABANDONING THOSE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AMBITIONS AND HAVING THE
OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE THEIR
ECONOMY TO SOME BASIC DEGREE OF
HEALTH.
BY THE WAY, AT A TIME WHEN CRUDE
OIL PRICES WERE RISING, THE
IRANIAN ECONOMY STAGNATED.
THEY HAD A NEGATIVE GROWTH OF 1%
LAST YEAR AND THEY HAD STAGNANT
GROWTH THE YEAR BEFORE THAT, SO
AT A TIME WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE
BEEN ENJOYING ROBUST ECONOMIC
GROWTH BECAUSE OF RISING CRUDE
OIL PRICES, THEY WERE STAGNANT
BECAUSE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
THESE SANCTIONS.
OF
EFFECTIVENESS WAS FROM PRESIDENT
AHMADINEJAD HIMSELF WHO THIS
WEEK STOOD BEFORE THEIR
PARLIAMENT DEFENDING A CABINET
MEMBER OF HIS ACCUSED OF SOME
WRONGDOING AND SAID ONE OF THE
REASONS WHY THEY HAD TO ENGAGE
IN THE WRONGDOING WAS THEIR
ECONOMY WAS IN BAD SHAPE
BECAUSE, QUOTE, WE CAN'T DO
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
TRANSACTIONS, ANYMORE, CLOSE
THERE'S SOME GOOD NEWS.
WHAT I'M SUGGESTING HERE IS THAT
THE HOUSE SHOULD MOVE RAPIDLY TO
EMBRACE AND SUPPORT THE
LEGISLATION THAT THE FOREIGN
YESTERDAY.
AND I THINK THAT LEGISLATION
WILL ENJOY BROAD REPUBLICAN EARN
DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT -- AND
DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT, AS IT DID
YESTERDAY, I BELIEVE IT WAS
COMMITTEE.
I WOULD THEN URGE OUR
ADMINISTRATION TO WORK WITH THE
CONGRESS AND SIGN SUCH
LEGISLATION AND IMPLEMENT IT.
NOW, LISTEN, I, MADAM SPEAKER, I
FULLY UNDERSTAND THAT SANCTIONS
ALONE MAY NOT BE SUFFICIENT.
AND I'M NOT HERE TODAY TO ARGUE
FOR THAT PROPOSITION.
WHAT I AM HERE TO ARGUE TODAY
FOR THE PROPOSITION IS THAT THE
SANCTIONS WE HAVE IMPOSED THUS
FAR HAVE SHOWN SOME SIGNS OF
SUCCESS.
AND I THINK THIS IS THE TIME TO
INTENSIFY THOSE SANCTIONS, NOT
TO WEAKEN THEM.
I THINK THIS IS A TIME FOR US TO
INTENSIFY OUR UNIFIED NATIONAL
RESOLVE ON THIS QUESTION.
AND DESPITE OUR VERY PROFOUND
DIFFERENCES ON MATTERS OF
ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL POLICY,
WHICH IS WHAT A DEMOCRACY OUGHT
TO HAVE, THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US ON
QUESTION OF STANDING IN A
UNIFIED FASHION IN FAVOR OF MORE
INTENSE SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN.
THE NEED IS URGENT AND
COMPELLING.
MADAM SPEAKER, IF SOMEONE HAD
STOOD IN THIS CHAMBER IN THE MID
1990'S AND SAID, IF WE DON'T
FOCUS OUR INTELLIGENCE EFFORTS
ON AN OBSCURE GROUP OF FORMER
MUGEA HAD A DEAN REBELS IN
CALLED AL QAEDA, IF
WE DON'T DO THAT, THE DAY MAY
COME WHEN WE'LL HAVE A DOMESTIC
PEARL HARBOR, WHEN THE WORLD
TRADE CENTERS WILL COLLAPSE,
WHEN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WILL
PERISH, WHEN THE PENTAGON, OUR
OWN AIRSPACE, WILL BE ATTACKED
BY CIVILIANS IN OUR COUNTRY.
I THINK ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT
THAT THE MEMBER WAS AUDITIONING
FOR A TOM CLANCY FILM.
IT WOULD SOUND VERY FANTASTIC,
VERY UNLIKELY, AND ALMOST LIKE
SCIENCE FICTION OR A SPY
THRILLER.
I WISH SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, HAD
BEEN FICTION.
I WISH WE DID NOT HAVE TO GO TO
THOSE FUNERALS AND COMFORT THOSE
FAMILIES WHO SUFFER EVEN TODAY.
I WISH THAT WERE THE FACT.
AND THERE WILL BE SOME WHO WILL
SAY THE SCENARIO WE TALKED ABOUT
EARLIER, ABOUT A NUCLEAR I.E.D.
EXPLODING IN TIME'S SQUARE, THE
NATIONAL MALL, OR NFL FOOTBALL
GAME IS TOO PROVOCATIVE OR TOO
SENSATIONAL OR TOO SCARY.
I HOPE THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY
RIGHT.
I HOPE IT'S TOTAL FICTION.
BUT I THINK WE OUGHT TO KNOW
BETTER.
I THINK WE OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER
THAT THERE IS A REGIME WHICH HAS
DEMONSTRATED ITS DECEIT, WHICH
HAS MAN FESTED ITS EVIL TOWARD
ITS OWN PEOPLE AND TO OUR TROOPS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
THAT HAS USED LANGUAGE THAT IS
MORE THAN JUST PURPLE HANG
LANGUAGE.
IT'S LANGUAGE THAT GOES BEYOND
THE PALE OF ANNIHILATION AND
ISRAEL AND ALL THAT WOULD STAND
WITH ISRAEL AND NOW STANDARDS
ACCUSED OR PERSONS ALLEGED TO BE
TIED TO THAT REGIME NOW STAND
ACCUSED IN OUR COURTS OF
PARTICIPATING IN A CONSPIRACY TO
ON OUR SOIL.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WE SHOULD BE
CONCERNED ABOUT.
AND AS WE LOOK AT THE QUESTION
OF WHETHER SUCH AN ATTACK COULD
HAPPEN, I THINK THE ANSWER IS
UNEQUIVOCALLY, YES, IT CAN.
RESPONSIBILITY IS TO --
EQUALLY, WITH EQUAL
UNEQUIVOCATION SAY NO, IT WON'T.
WE WILL USE THE RESOURCES AT OUR
DISPOSAL, OUR INTERNATIONAL
APPLIANCES, OUR ECONOMIC
LEVERAGE, OUR DIPLOMATIC SKILL
TO TRY TO MOVE THE IRANIANS TO
THE POINT WHERE THEY WOULD
ACCEPT A REASONABLE DEAL WHICH
SAYS IF YOU WANT TO HAVE NUCLEAR
POWER PLANTS IN YOUR COUNTRY,
THAT'S YOUR SOVEREIGN RIGHT.
BUT YOU MUST BUY YOUR FUEL FROM
OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY AND YOU MUST
ABANDON YOUR ABILITY TO
MANUFACTURE AND SYNTHESIZE FUEL.
THAT'S A REASONABLE AND FAIR
SETTLEMENT.
WE SHOULD USE EVERY TOOL AT OUR
DISPOSAL TO ENCOURAGE THE
IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO ACCEPT
SUCH A SETTLE.
AS ANY WISE PRESIDENT SHOULD DO
AS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS DONE, AS
PRESIDENT BUSH DID BEFORE HIM,
AS PRESIDENT CLINTON DID BEFORE
HIM, AS PRESIDENT BUSH DID
BEFORE HIM, AS PRESIDENT REAGAN
DID BEFORE THEM, ANY
PRUDENT AMERICAN PRESIDENT MUST
RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND OUR
SOVEREIGN INTEREST WITH WHATEVER
TOOLS ARE NECESSARY SHOULD THE
NEED ARISE.
I PRAY THE NEED WILL NEVER ARISE
AND I THINK IF WE ACT
INTELLIGENTLY, FORCE FULLY, BUT
URGENTSLY I THINK THAT WE CAN
AVOID THAT DAY AND AVOID A
SITUATION LIKE I DESCRIBED
EARLIER.
SO, MADAM SPEAKER, THANK YOU FOR
THIS TIME THIS AFTERNOON.
I'D LIKE AGAIN TO THANK THE
STAFF FOR ITS INDULGENCE AND
COMMEND THE CHAIRWOMAN OF OUR
COMMITTEE AND THE RANKING MEMBER
I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING
THEIR LEGISLATION, BROADENING
OUR UNIFIED BIPARTISAN NATIONAL
EFFORT TO STAND STRONG AGAINST
THE TYRANNY AND EVIL OF THIS
REGIME AND FOR THE WELFARE OF
INNOCENT PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD AND OUR COUNTRY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THE
GENTLEMAN YIELDS.
UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED
POLICY OF JANUARY 5, 2011, THE
GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS, MR.
GOHMERT, IS RECOGNIZED FOR 60
MINUTES AS THE DESIGNEE OF THE
MAJORITY LEADER.
THANK YOU, MADAM
SPEAKER.
IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE ON
THE FLOOR TO HEAR MY FRIEND FROM
NEW JERSEY'S COMMENTS.
VERY WELL THOUGHT THROUGH AND I
FEEL SURE WE COULD FIND SOME
COMMONALITY IN OUR CONCERNS AND
APPRECIATE THEM.
THANK YOU.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT UNDER THE
DEBT CEILING ACT THAT WAS PASSED
EARLY AUGUST WAS A REQUIREMENT
FOR A VOTE ON A BALANCED BUDGET
AMENDMENT.
THERE IS DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF
THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.
ONE HAS MOST OF THE THINGS WE
HOLD DEAR, NOT ONLY REQUIREMENT
OF BALANCING THE BUDGET BUT ALSO
A CAP ON SPENDING AS A
PERCENTAGE OF GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT, AND ALSO AN INCREASED
SUPERMAJORITY IN ORDER TO PASS
ANY TAX BILLS, RAISING TAXES.
MY CONCERN HAS BEEN THAT WE HAD
A WAVE ELECTION LAST NOVEMBER.
WE GOT OVER 80 NEW CONSERVATIVE
FRESHMEN, AND WE HAVEN'T CUT
SPENDING LIKE WE SHOULD.
AND MORE AND MORE COMPELLED THAT
WE NEED A CAP ON SPENDING.
ALL OF OUR MEMBERS SUPPORT THAT
BUT THE QUESTION WILL BE, WHAT
VERSION OF A BALANCED BUDGET
AMENDMENT WILL COME TO THE FLOOR
FOR A VOTE AND BECAUSE I'VE
BECOME INCREASINGLY CONVINCED
THIS YEAR TO THE POINT WHERE WE
ARE NOW, MADAM SPEAKER, I WOULD
REQUEST THAT MY NAME BE REMOVED
2.
WITHOUT
OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
THANK YOU, MADAM
SPEAKER.
I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE
COMMENTS OF MY FRIEND FROM NEW
JERSEY, MR. ANDREWS.
THERE'S A LOT GOING ON IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.
AND IT'S NOT LOOKING VERY GOOD
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE FREEDOM, THE
RIGHT TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES.
BECAUSE YOU FIND IN SOME OF THE
DOCUMENTATION OF THOSE WHO HAVE
PUSHED, SUPPORTED, -- SUPPORTED
REBELLION, THE SO-CALLED ARAB
SPRING, THEIR DEFINITION OF
FREEDOM IS THE FREEDOM TO LIVE
UNDER SHARI'A LAW AND BE
COMPLETELY GOVERNED BY SHARI'A
LAW.
THAT'S THE FREEDOM THAT THEIR
ARAB SPRING BRINGS.
AND IT'S BEEN INTERESTING,
THERE'S AN ARTICLE HERE FROM
GREGORY CANE.
THE TITLE SAYS, "OBAMA BECOMES
SILENT COW ON LIBBY SHARI'A."
THE -- LIBYA SHARI'A."
THE ARTICLE FROM GREGORY CANE,
I'D JUST LIKE TO READ THIS
RECORD, WITH EACH PASSING DAY
WE'RE LEARNING MORE AND MORE
ABOUT THE PEOPLE PRESIDENT OBAMA
TOSSED US INTO BED WITH IN
LIBYA.
HERE'S A HEADLINE FROM "THE
LONDON DAILY MAIL," A BRITISH
NEWSPAPER.
QUOTE, NOW THE REBELS IMPOSE
SHARI'A LAW AS ISLAMIC RULES
BECOME BASIC SOURCE OF LIBYAN
LEGISLATION.
UNQUOTE.
IN THE STORY BELOW THE HEADLINE,
READERS LEARN FROM THE CHAIRMAN
OF LIBYA'S NATIONAL TRANSITION
COUNCIL THAT THE COUNTRY'S NEW
PARLIAMENT WILL HAVE AN ISLAMIST
TINT THAT, QUOTE, ANY EXISTING
LAWS CONTRADICTING THE TEACHINGS
OF ISLAM WOULD BE NULLIFIED,
UNQUOTE.
AND THAT MEN WILL BE ALLOWED TO
HAVE AS MANY AS FOUR WIVES.
AGAIN, THE QUESTION MUST BE PUT
TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
EXACTLY HOW DO SHARI'A LAW AND
POLYGAMY REFLECT AMERICAN
VALUES?
REMEMBER, WHEN -- AND I'M
INSERTING PRESIDENT INTO THE
MENTION OF THE PRESIDENT OBAMA,
REMEMBER WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA
JUSTIFIED AMERICAN AND NATO AIR
STRIKES IN LIBYA THAT SUPPORT
THE REBEL FORCES THAT TOPPLE THE
REGIME OF MUAMMAR GADDAFI, HE
CLAIMED THAT PREVENTING
BLOODSHED WAS AN, QUOTE,
AMERICAN VALUE, UNQUOTE.
BUT THERE WAS BLOODSHED APLENTY
AT LEAST ON THE SIDE OF GADDAFI
FORCES.
GADDAFI HIMSELF WAS A VICTIM OF
THE BLOODSHED.
AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS
DEATH THAT HAVE COME TO LIGHT
SHED MORE LIGHT ON WHAT A SHAM
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CLAIM OF
ACTING TO PRESERVE AMERICAN
VALUES REALLY IS.
IN A SEPARATE "LONDON DAILY
MAIL" STORY ABOUT GADDAFI'S
DEATH, THE PAPER PRINTED THE
PHOTO OF AN UNIDENTIFIED REBEL
WHO CLAIMED HE WAS THE ONE WHO
KILLED GADDAFI.
QUOTE, WE GRABBED GADDAFI,
UNQUOTE, THE YOUNG MAN SAID,
QUOTE, I HIT HIM IN THE FACE,
SOME FIGHTERS WANTED TO TAKE HIM
AWAY AND THAT'S WHEN I SHOT HIM
TWICE, IN THE FACE AND IN THE
CHEST, UNQUOTE.
LATER IT WAS REVEALED THAT MORE
WAS DONE TO GADDAFI THAN THIS
YOUNG REBEL MERELY SHOOTING HIM
IN THE FACE AND CHEST.
SOME REPORTS SAY THAT BEFORE HE
DIED GADDAFI WAS SODOMIZED WITH
EITHER A KNIFE, BAYONET OR SOME
OTHER SHARP OBJECT.
SO LET'S RECAP.
NUMBER ONE, PRESIDENT OBAMA
COMMITS AMERICAN FORCES AS PART
OF NATO AND I'LL ADD, WHEN HE
HAVE THE SENSE TO COME
BEFORE CONGRESS AND MAKE THE
CASE HERE, AS MANY OF US ON BOTH
SIDES OF THE AISLE HAVE BEEN
ADVOCATING, NO MATTER WHO THE
PRESIDENT IS, REPUBLICAN,
DEMOCRAT, IF YOU CAN'T COME TO
CONGRESS AND MAKE THE CASE AS TO
WHY AMERICAN LIVES AND AMERICAN
TREASURES SHOULD BE PUT AT RISK,
IS IT REALLY SOMETHING WE OUGHT
TO BE DOING AS A COUNTRY?
NOW, RESUMING THE ARTICLE,
AGAIN, PRESIDENT OBAMA COMMITS
AMERICAN FORCES AS PART OF NATO
TO SUPPORTING A REBEL FACTION IN
LIBYA WHOSE GOAL IS TO OVERTHROW
GADDAFI.
PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES THIS WHILE
HAVING ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE ABOUT
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE MAKE UP THIS
REBEL FACTION.
NUMBER TWO, THE REBEL FORCES
PREVAIL, PRIMARILY THROUGH NATO
NATO AIR STRIKES THAT
TOOK OUT GADDAFI CONVOY FLEEING
THAT ALLOWED REBEL FORCES TO
CAPTURE THE DEPOSED LIBYAN
LEADER.
NUMBER THREE, GADDAFI ENDS UP IN
THE HANDS OF WHAT CAN ONLY BE
CONSIDERED A MOB.
HE'S BEATEN, TORTURED, POSSIBLY
SODOMIZED AND FATALLY SHOT IN
WHAT HAS BEEN OXYMORONICALLY
DESCRIBED AS MOB JUSTICE.
HIS BODY IS THEN PUT ON PUBLIC
DISPLAY IN A MEAT STORE.
NUMBER FOUR, SECRETARY OF STATE
HILLARY CLINTON FLIES IN TO
LIBYA AND ANNOUNCES WITH THE
SMUG ARROGANCE WE MIGHT EXPECT
FROM AN OFFICIAL FROM PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION, QUOTE,
WE CAME, WE SAW, HE, GADDAFI,
DIED.
UNQUOTE.
NUMBER FIVE, LEADERS OF LIBYA'S
NATIONAL TRANSITION COUNCIL
ANNOUNCED THAT SHARI'A LAW WILL
PREVAIL IN LIBYA.
NUMBER SIX, PRESIDENT OBAMA IS
MUM ON NUMBER FIVE.
HE, PRESIDENT OBAMA, HASN'T SAID
THE BLATANTLY
FALSE ACCOUNT OF GADDAFI'S DEATH
THAT INTERIM LIBYAN PRIME
MINISTER INITIALLY GAVE
REPORTERS.
HE HASN'T CONDEMNED THE, QUOTE,
MOB JUSTICE, UNQUOTE, THAT LED
TO GADDAFI'S DEATH.
THE BEATING, THE TORTURE, THE
ALLEGED SODOMIZING.
HE HASN'T MUMBLED SO MUCH AS A
SYLLABLE ABOUT GADDAFI'S BODY
BEING PUT ON DISPLAY IN A MEAT
STORE.
PRESIDENT OBAMA HASN'T SAID ONE
WORD ABOUT SHARI'A BEING THE LAW
OF THE LAND IN THE NEW LIBYA.
THE MAN WHO WAS UNAVOIDABLE FOR
COMMENT WHEN IT CAME TO
JUSTIFYING AMERICA'S
INTERVENTION IN LIBYA HAS NOW
PULLED A COMPLETE ACT ON THIS
ISSUE.
PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS MADE SILENT
MOWLINGT.
THAT'S AN ARTICLE -- MOUTH.
THAT'S AN ARTICLE IN "THE
WASHINGTON EXAMINER."
THEN INTERESTINGLY FROM THE
"AMERICAN THINKER," ARTICLE BY
ANDREW BOSSEN TO, LIBERATED
LIBYA, AL QAEDA FLAG ALOFT
BENGHAZI'S COURTHOUSE.
THE COURTHOUSE IN BENGHAZI IS
THE ICONIC SEAT OF THE REVOLT
WHICH TOPPLED GADDAFI.
LIBYA'S, QUOTE, IMMORAL
EQUIVALENT, UNQUOTE, TO EGYPT'S
TAHRIR SQUARE.
DURING THE TUMULTUOUS MONTHS OF
LIBYA'S BRUTAL CIVIL WAR, IT WAS
HERE THAT REBEL FORCES
ESTABLISHED A PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT, PROPAGANDIST MEDIA
CENTER, CROWING TO FOREIGN
JOURNALISTS ABOUT THEIR, QUOTE,
HEROIC, UNQUOTE, STRUGGLE FOR
FREEDOM.
AND HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE AL
FLAG.
THE ARTICLE GOES ON, ONE CAN NOW
SEE BOTH THE LIBYAN REBEL FLAG
AND THE FLAG OF AL QAEDA
FLUTTERING ATOP BENGHAZI'S
GOT A BLOW UP OF THAT RIGHT
HERE.
JUST SO THOSE WHO FELT SO
COMPELLED TO ASSIST MEMBERS OF
AL QAEDA, WE KNEW THERE WERE
MEMBERS OF AL QAEDA.
WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW MANY WERE
PART OF THE LIBYAN REBEL FORCES,
BUT WE KNEW THERE WERE MEMBERS
OF AL QAEDA.
WE KNEW THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE
WHO WERE REBELING AGAINST
GADDAFI THAT, AS MUCH AS THEY
WANTED TO KILL GADDAFI, WANT TO
KILL AMERICANS.
AND NOW WE ALSO KNOW NATO
FORCES, AS THE PRESIDENT KEPT
SAYING, OH, NO, WE'RE GOING TO
LEAVE THAT TO NATO FORCES, THE
UNITED STATES MILITARY MAKES UP
65% OF NATO'S MILITARY.
IT'S AMERICAN.
SO LET'S LOOK AND RECAP THE GOOD
THAT WE'VE DONE IN SUPPORTING
THOSE MEMBERS OF AL QAEDA WHO
TOOK OUT GADDAFI.
WITH WHOM THIS ADMINISTRATION
HAD LAWFUL DEALINGS BEFORE THEY
DECIDED TO SUPPORT TAKING HIM
OUT AND HIDING UNDER NATO'S NAME
, TOOK ACTION TO SEE THAT HE WAS
THROWN OUT AND NOW KILLED,
SO HERE WE ARE.
THE AL QAEDA FLAG FLYING OVER
THE COURTHOUSE IN BENGHAZI.
THAT'S THE DAYLIGHT PHOTO.
OVER HERE ON THIS THIRD WE HAVE
THE NIGHTTIME PHOTO AND ONCE
AGAIN THERE IS THE AL QAEDA FLAG
WAVING PROUDLY OVER THAT
HISTORIC COURTHOUSE IN BENGHAZI.
GOING BACK TO THE ARTICLE FROM
THE AMERICAN THINKER, ACCORDING
TO ONE BENGHAZI RESIDENT,
ISLAMISTS DRIVING BRAND NEW
S.U.V.'S AND WAVING THE BLACK
FLAG -- THE BLACK AL QAEDA FLAG
DRIVE THE CITY STREETS AT NIGHT
SHOUTING, QUOTE,S I LAMBIA, NO
A REFERENCE TO PREVIOUS WORRIES
THAT THE COUNTRY MIGHT -- OR
WOULD BE BETWEEN GADDAFI
OPPONENTS IN THE EAST AND THE
PRO-GADDAFI ELEMENTS IN THE
WEST.
A LONG QUOTE FROM SOMEONE.
EARLIER THIS WEEK I WENT TO
BENGHAZI COURTHOUSE AND
RUMORS AN AL QAEDA
FLAG WAS CLEARLY VISIBLE.
ITS ARABIC SCRIPT DECLARING
THAT, QUOTE, THERE IS NO GOD BUT
ALLAH, UNQUOTE, AND A FULL MOON
UNDERNEATH.
WHEN I TRIED TO TAKE PICTURES A
GUARD WEARING A GREEN CAMOUFLAGE
OUTFIT RUSHED TOWARDS ME AND
DEMANDED TO KNOW WHAT I WAS
DOING.
MY RESPONSE WAS STRAIGHTFORWARD.
I WAS TAKING A PICTURE OF THE
HE GAVE ME AN INTIMIDATING LOOK
AND HIS, QUOTE, WHOM SPEAKS ILL
OF THIS FLAG WE WILL CUT OFF HIS
TONGUE.
HOW ABOUT THAT FOR AN AMERICAN
VALUE?
THESE.
WILL YOU BRING TROUBLE TO
YOURSELF, UNQUOTE.
WHAT GLORIOUS AMERICAN VALUES.
OUR PRESIDENT ASSURED US THAT
WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF CONGRESS,
WITHOUT EVEN A DEBATE IN
CONGRESS, HE HAD TO RUSH
HEADLONG INTO HELPING THESE
PEOPLE THAT TURNS OUT, AS WE
WERE CONCERNED MIGHT, AL QAEDA.
WE HAD TO HELP AL QAEDA WITH
WHOM WE HAD DECLARED WAR
BASICALLY BY THE PRESIDENT OF
UNITED STATES AFTER 9/11 BECAUSE
THEY HAD DECLARED WAR ON US.
AND SO THIS PRESIDENT, WITHOUT
COMING AND HAVING A DEBATE,
DECIDES HE'S GOING TO GO HELP
THESE PEOPLE BEFORE HE KNEW WHO
ALL EXACTLY WE WERE HELPING.
BECAUSE THEY REFLECT AMERICAN
VALUES.
GOING BACK TO THE ARTICLE.
THE AUTHOR SAYS, HE FOLLOWED ME
INSIDE THE COURTHOUSE BUT
LUCKILY MY DRIVER WAS CLOSE BY
AND INTERCEDED ON MY BEHALF.
ACCORDING TO KHALID, THE GUARD
ME.
WHEN I AGAIN ENGAGED HIM IN
CONVERSATION HE TOLD ME, QUOTE,
THIS FLAG IS THE TRUE FLAG OF
ISLAM, UNQUOTE.
WELL, HOW ABOUT THOSE AMERICAN
VALUES?
THAT OUR PRESIDENT USED OUR
TREASURE, PUT OUR MILITARY
MEMBERS AT RISK IN ORDER TO
EFFECTUATE.
NOW WE'VE GOT THE AL QAEDA FLAG
FLYING IN LIBYA.
IN BENGHAZI.
OVER THE HISTORIC COURTHOUSE
THAT WAS THE HEADQUARTERS DURING
THE ASSAULT ON GADDAFI.
WE FOUND OUT ON 9/11 THERE WERE
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO WERE AT
WAR WITH US AND IT TURNS OUT
THEY HAVE BEEN AT WAR WITH US AT
LEAST SINCE IRAN.
SINCE THOSE DAYS WHEN A NAIVE
BUT WELL-INTENTIONED PRESIDENT
NAMED TARTER -- CARTER HAD
THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI
AS A MAN OF PEACE COMING TO IRAN
SAME PRESIDENT WHO GAVE AWAY THE
PANAMA CANAL THAT SO MANY
VALIANT AMERICANS LOST THEIR
LIVES DIGGING, CREATING,
DEFENDING, WAS GIVEN AWAY.
AND WE HAD A PRICE TO PAY FOR
THAT AT SOME POINT DOUG DOWN THE
BUT WE'RE ALREADY PAYING THE
PRICE AND HAVE BEEN SINCE 1979
FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AT THAT
TIME, WHILE I WAS IN THE ARMY AT
FORT BENNING, WATCHING THOSE
THINGS HAPPEN, KNOWING IT WAS A
CRIME FOR ME AS A MILITARY
MEMBER TO CRITICIZE ANYBODY IN
THE CHAIN OF COMMAND, WHICH WAS
PRESIDENT CARTER, WE HAD TO BITE
OUR TONGUES AS WE WATCHED THAT
IN THE
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI.
SO MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST,
SO MANY PEOPLE TORTURED,
KILLED, WE'VE GOT CHRISTIANS ON
THE RUN ALL OVER THE MIDDLE
EAST, CHRISTIANS BEING KILLED
AROUND THE MIDDLE EAST, THE
LAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAS NOW
CLOSED IN AFGHANISTAN.
THAT WE SENT AMERICAN TREASURE
AND LIVES, LOST SO MANY
AMERICAN LIVES IN ORDER TO ROUT
THE TALIBAN AND THEN WE TURN
THE COUNTRY OVER TO WHAT THE
PEOPLE THERE TELL US IS A VERY,
VERY CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION.
HAVING MET WITH LEADERS OF THE
NORTHERN ALLIANCE, WITH A FEW
OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, IT'S
CLEAR WE HAVE NOT DONE A GOOD
THING IN FORCING A CENTRALIZED
GOVERNMENT IN A COUNTRY THAT
CANNOT SUSTAIN IT WITHOUT MASS
CORRUPTION AND BRUTALITY.
THE RECENT
COMMENTS OF THE -- OF KARZAI
HIMSELF, HE'S PREPARED TO MAKE
PEACE AND BE AN ALLY OF PEOPLE
SWORN TO DESTROY US.
AFGHANISTAN CAN BE SALVAGED BUT
IT -- WE HAVE TO BE SMART IN
THE WAY WE DO THAT.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE KNOW THAT
MORE OF THE 9/11 HIJACKERS WERE
FROM SAUDI ARABIA THAN FROM ANY
OTHER COUNTRY.
IT CERTAINLY APPEARS THAT THERE
ARE PEOPLE IN SAUDI ARABIA WHO
HAVE MADE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF
MONEY BECAUSE OF OUR DEPENDENCE
ON THEIR OIL, WHO HAVE USED
THAT MONEY TO FUND TERRORISM.
THAT HAS BEEN USED AGAINST THE
UNITED STATES.
-- AGAINST THE UNITED STATES TO
KILL OUR PRECIOUS MINNESOTA AND
WOMEN OF OUR MILITARY.
WE NEED TO BECOME ENERGY
INDEPENDENT.
WE NEED TO GET RID OF ANY
DEPARTMENT THAT HAS -- THAT HAS
HAD AS ITS AVOWED GOAL FOR 32
YEARS TO GET OFF DEPENDENCE ON
FOREIGN ENERGY AND EVERY YEAR
HAS DONE A POORER AND POORER
JOB OF THAT.
ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE MADE SOME
NICE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PEOPLE
AT SO LIND RAH AND OTHER -- AND
SOLYNDRA AND OTHER BANKRUPT
COMPANIES.
IT'S TIME TO GET RID OF THE
ENERGY DEPARTMENT, IT'S TIME TO
GET SERIOUS ABOUT STOPPING THE
WE KNOW WE'VE GOT ENOUGH
NATURAL GAS WE CAN ACTUALLY DO
THAT NOW.
HAVE AT LEAST 100 YEARS OF USE
OF NATURAL GAS AND I AM FINE
TAKING A PERCENTAGE OF THE
ROYALTIES THE GOVERNMENT COULD
NATURAL GAS PRODUCED,
OIL PRODUCED ON -- PRODUCED ON
OUR OWN FEDERAL LAND AND USING
IT TOWARD ALTERNATIVE ENERGY,
BUT I AM NOT, AS MOST OF MY
FRIENDS ARE NOT, IN FAVOR OF
BORROW MANAGER MONEY TO THROW
AT COMPANIES LIKE SOLYNDRA THAT
CANNOT MAKE IT ON ITS OWN OR
LIKE THE SOLAR COMPANY IN
NEVADA, THE FRIENDS OF LEADER
HARRY REID.
ALSO GETTING MASSIVE MONEY, 42,
44 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR OF
WHICH EHAD TO BORROW TO THROW
AT THEIR FRIENDS WHO HAVE GONE
BANKRUPT.
IT'S TIME WE STARTED USING SOME
COMMON SENSE.
YOU DON'T RUSH IN TO HELP IN A
REBELLION UNTIL YOU KNOW WHO
YOU'RE HELPING.
AND THIS ADMINISTRATION DID NOT
DO THAT.
BECAUSE TO THINK THAT THEY KNEW
WHO WE WERE HELPING, IS REALLY
UNTHINKABLE.
THAT'S MY HOPE AND PRAYER, THIS
ADMINISTRATION DID NOT
UNDERSTAND WHO IT WAS HELPING
THAT WOULD ONE DAY FLY AL QAEDA
FLAGS OVER A BUILDING WHERE
HOUSED GOVERNMENT IN LIBYA.
AND WE HAVE SAT IDLY BY AND
WATCHED IRAN GROW GREATER AND
STRONGER IN STRENGTH IN ITS
MOVE TOWARD CREATING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS.
JUST AS MY FRIEND FROM NEW
JERSEY WAS TALKING ABOUT, IRAN
GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO
HAVING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PLURAL,
OUR STRONG ALLY IN THE MIDDLE
EAST WHO IS BECOMING SURROUNDED
TO TAKE IT
OUT, ISRAEL, IS A THREAT FOR
LOSING ITS VERY EXISTENCE.
AN EXISTENCE THAT WAS
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AFFIRMED
UNANIMOUSLY IN THE UNITED
NATIONS BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN
OVER BY PEOPLE WHO SYMPATHIZED
WITH THOSE WHO FLY THE AL QAEDA
FLAG.
BACK IN THOSE DAYS, IT WAS A
UNANIMOUS DECISION.
HOW COULD A COUNTRY, A JEWISH
STATE LIKE ISRAEL, NOT BE
CREATED AFTER THE WORST
GENOCIDE, HOLOCAUST, IN THE
HISTORY OF MAN.
THEY NEEDED A CUPRY OF THEIR
AND WHAT BETTER PLACE THAN IN A
PLACE WHERE KING DAVID RULES,
1,400 YEARS BEFORE THERE WAS A
MOHAMED, 1,400 YEARS
BEFORE THE CREATION OF MOD ERP
TAI ISLAM.
-- OF MODERN DAY ISLAM.
I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT JEWEL
ROSENBERG IS A FRIEND OF MINE.
NIGHT.
HE'S GOT A PRAND NEW BOOK OUT,
CAN'T WAIT TO READ IT.
HE HAS AN ARTICLE IN THE
"WASHINGTON TIMES," FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 21, NEEDS TO BE ENTERED
IN THE RECORD AND I'LL DO SO BY
READING IT.
THE HEADLINE, THE TITLE, IS
"CONFRONTING THE THREAT FROM
IRAN."
HE WRITE THE BRAZEN IRANIAN
TERRORIST PLOT TO ASSASSINATE
THE SAUDI AMBASSADOR, KILL
AMERICANS AN BLOW UP THE SAUDI
AND ISRAELI EMPASSCIES IN
WASHINGTON WAS A WAKEUP CALL.
IRAN HAS MURDERED AMERICANS IN
OVER THE YEARS.
NOW IT APPEARS TO HAVE ORDERED
TERRORIST ATTACKS INSIDE OUR
NATION'S CAPITAL.
SHOULD THIS PROVE TRUE, IRAN
HAS ENGAGED IN AN ACT OF WAR.
NOW THE QUESTION IS, WHO WILL
NEUTRALIZE THE THREAT FROM IRAN
BEFORE THE MOOLA -- BEFORE THE
MULLAHS DEVELOP NUCLEAR WAR
HEADS.
QUOTE, THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY MUST STOP IRAN BEFORE
IT'S TOO LATE, UNQUOTE.
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN
NETANYAHU WARNED IN HIS UNITED
NATIONS SPEECH LAST NIGHT.
QUOTE IF IRAN IS NOT STOPPED,
WE WILL ALL FACE THE SPECTER OF
TERRORISM AND THE ARAB SPRING
COULD BECOME AN IRANIAN WINTER.
THE MOVEMENT IS BECOME MANAGER
DANGEROUS.
IRAN HAS NOT ABANDONED ITS
NUCLEAR PROGRAM, THE OPPOSITE
IS TRUE.
IT CONTINUES FULL STEAM AHEAD,
UNQUOTE, WARNED MAJOR GENERAL
EISENBERG, HOME FRONT COMMAND
CHIEF OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE
FORCES IN THE SEPTEMBER SPEECH.
HE WARNED THAT THE ARAB SPRING
WOULD TURN INTO A QUOTE RADICAL
ISLAMIC WINTER, UNQUOTE, AND
QUOTE, THIS RAISES THE
LIKELIHOOD OF AN ALL OUT, TOTAL
WAR WITH A POSSIBILITY OF
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
BEING USED, UNQUOTE.
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS NOT
TAKING DECISIVE ACTION TO
NEUTRALIZE IRAN.
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S POLICY OF
ENGAGEMENT WITH THE MULLAHS HAS
MORPHED INTO A POLICY OF
APPEASEMENT AND IT HAS FAILED.
YET THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ALL BUT
TAKE THEN USE OF FORCE OFF THE
IN SEPTEMBER OF 2009,
THE-DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT
GATES SAID, QUOTE, THE REALITY
IS THERE IS NO MILITARY OPTION
THAT DOES ANYTHING MORE THAN
BUY TIME, UNQUOTE.
IN APRIL, 2010, "THE NEW YORK
THAT MR. GATES
SAID, QUOTE, WARNED IN A SECRET
THREE-PAGE MEMORANDUM THAT THE
UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE AN
EFFECTIVE LONG RANGE POLICY FOR
DEALING WITH IRAN'S STEADY
PROGRESS TOWARD NUCLEAR
CAPABILITY, UNQUOTE.
LITTLE HAS CHANGED IN THE PAST
18 MT.S.
WHAT'S MORE, THE ADMINISTRATION
IS PRESSURING ISRAEL NOT TO
LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
AGAINST IRAN DESPITE THE
GROWING THREAT OF A SECOND
HOLOCAUST.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HOWEVER,
EXPECT AND DESERVE BETTER.
A BIPARTISAN POLL CONDUCTED IN
SEPTEMBER BY DEMOCRAT---
DEMOCRAT PAT CO-DELL AND
REPUBLICAN JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
FOUND THAT 72% OF AMERICANS
THINK THAT THE CURRENT
ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES
TOWARD STOPPING IRAN'S NUCLEAR
POLICIES WILL FAIL.
THEY THINK IRAN IS THE NATION
POSING THE GREATEST THREAT TO
US, AHEAD OF CHINA AN NORTH
KOREA.
REMARKABLY, 63% OF AMERICANS
ALL APPROVE OF PREEMPTIVE
MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN IF
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS DO NOT STOP
ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND THEY
HAVE NOT AND IT IS VERY CLEAR
AND I'M SAYING THIS
PARENTHETICALLY, IT'S NOT IN
THE ARTICLE, THE SANCTIONS HAVE
NOT SLOWED IRAN FROM PURSUING
NUCLEAR.
-- NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
IT APPEARS CLEAR TO THOSE WHO
LOOK VERY LONG AND STUDY THE
ISSUE VERY LONG THAT IRAN IS
COUNTING ON DEVELOPING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS BEFORE THE SANCTIONS
TOTALLY CRIPPLE THEM BECAUSE
THEY KNOW WHEN THEY GET NUCLEAR
WEAPONS, THEY CAN THEN USE THEM
TO EXTORT THE REMOVAL OF THE
SANCTIONS.
THEY WILL NOT WORK IN TIME,
IT'S TIME TO FACE UP TO THAT.
GOING BACK TO JOE ROSENBERG'S
ARTICLE, WAR, OF COURSE, IS NOT
THE PREFERRED SOLUTION.
THERE ARE A RANGE OF OPTIONS A
SERIOUS AMERICAN PRESIDENT
IRANIAN THREAT.
BUT NONE OF THEM IS LIKELY TO
WORK UNLESS THE PRESIDENT IS
WILLING TO PUBLICLY PUT THE
MILITARY OPTION ON THE TABLE
AND ORDER THE PENTAGON TO
ACCELERATE PLANNING FOR MASSIVE
OPERATIONS.
WILL ANY OF THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT STEP
UP?
ARTICULATING PRO-GROWTH
ECONOMIC POLICIES IS VITAL TO
TO BE SURE.
BUT THE G.O.P. CANDIDATES MUST
NOT DRINK THE COOL AIDE THAT
THE ECONOMY IS -- THE KOOL-AID
THAT THE ECONOMY IS ALL THAT
MATTERS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
TO THE CONTRARY, ANYONE ASKING
FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
MUST ARTICULATE A CLEAR,
COMPELLING, AND DETAILED
STRATEGY FOR NEUTRALIZING THE
THREAT POSED BY THE
APOCALYPTIC, GENOCIDAL DEATH
CULT IN TEHRAN.
AT THE NEXT DEBATE, EACH OF THE
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR
PRESIDENT SHOULD BE PRESSED TO
DIRECTLY APPS THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS.
ONE, AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, WHAT SPECIFIC ACTIONS
WOULD YOU TAKE TO STOP IRAN
FROM OBTAINING AND DEPLOYING
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND USING
TERRORISM TO ADVANCE ISLAMIC
NUMBER TWO, IF YOU HAD
INTELLIGENCE THAT IRAN WAS ON
THE VERGE OF BILLING
OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
WOULD YOUR ADMINISTRATION
SUPPORT AN ISRAELI PREEMPTIVE
MILITARY STRIKE ON IRAN'S
NUCLEAR FACILITIES?
NUMBER THREE, WOULD YOU AS
PRESIDENT SERIOUSLY CONSIDER
ORDERING A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY
U.S. MILITARY FORCES TO
NEUTRALIZE THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR
THREAT.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR
MITT ROMNEY RECENTLY DELIVERED
A FOREIGN POLICY ADDRESS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA IN WHICH HE
RAISED THE IRANIAN THREAT.
BE A FULLY
ACTIVATED NUCLEAR WEAPON STATE,
THREATENING ITS NEIGHBORS,
DOMINATING THE WORLD SUPPLY?
HE ASKED, IN THE HANDS OF THE
ITOE LAS, A NUCLEAR IRAN IS
NOTHING LESS THAN AN EXIST TEN
RBLE THREAT TO ISRAEL.
IRAN'S SUICIDAL FANATICS COULD
BLACKMAIL THE WORLD, UNQUOTE.
MR. ROMNEY NOTED THAT HE WOULD,
QUOTE, BEGIN DISCUSSIONS WITH
ISRAEL TO INCREASE THE LEVEL OF
OUR MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND
COORDINATION, UNQUOTE, AND
WOULD, QUOTE, REITERATE THAT
IRAN OBTAIN AGNEW CLEAR WEAPON
IS UNACCEPTABLE.
UNQUOTE.
HOWEVER, HE DID NOT
SPECIFICALLY DISDISCUSS HOW HE
WOULD STOP IRAN FROM GETTING
THE BOMB AND SPONSORING
TERRORIST ATTACKS.
BUSINESSMAN HERMAN KAIN HAS
SOARED INTO THE TO -- CAIN HAS
SOARED INTO THE TOP TYRE OF
CANDIDATES WITH A BOLD TAX PLAN
POLICY.
HE IDENTIFIED IRAN AS ONE OF
AMERICA'S MOST SERIOUS NATIONAL
SECURITY THREATS AND HAS BEEN
CLEAR ABOUT HIS STRONG SUPPORT
FOR ISRAEL.
DRAWING ON HIS EXPERIENCE AS A
CIVILIAN CONTRACTOR FOR THE
U.S. NAVY WORKING ON BALLISTIC
MISSILE PROMPT HE RIGHTFULLY
CALLED -- HAS CALLED FOR
ENHANCED MILITARY -- I'M SORRY,
MISSILE DEFENSES TO BLUNT AN
IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT.
QUI MAKE IT A APPROPRIATE TO
UPDWRADE OUR SURFACE TO AIR
DEFENSE CAPABILITIES OF ALL OF
OUR WARSHIPS ALL AROUND THE
WORLD.
QUOTE, MAKE THAT A PRIORITY AND
THEN SAY TO PRESIDENT
AHMADINEJAD, MAKE MY DAY,
UNQUOTE.
HIS INSTINCTS ARE RIGHT BUT
MISSILE DEFENSES ARE
INSUFFICIENT TO NEUTRALIZE THE
IRANIAN THREAT.
FEW OF THE G.O.P. CANDIDATES
BETTER UNDERSTAND THE IRANIAN
THREAT AND THE DANGEROUS
THEOLOGY OF THE CURRENT IRANIAN
LEADERSHIP WHICH IS PREPARING
FOR THE COMING OF THE ***'A
MESSIAH KNOWN AS THE 12TH IMAM
THAT FORMER SENATOR RICK
SANTORUM OF PENNSYLVANIA.
THUS FAR, HOWEVER, HE'S NOT MADE
IRAN A MAJOR ELEMENT OF HIS
CAMPAIGN.
FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT
GINGRICH, REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE
BACHMANN, TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK
PERRY HAVE BARELY MENTIONED THE
ISSUE, THOUGH CERTAINLY THEY
UNDERSTAND THE DANGERS.
ONLY REPRESENTATIVE RON PAUL
AMONG THE REPUBLICAN CONTENDERS
DOESN'T GRASP THE SERIOUSNESS OF
THE TWIN IRANIAN THREATS OF
TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
QUOTE, ONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY
THE MULLAHS MIGHT WANT TO BECOME
NUCLEAR CAPABLE, IF ONLY TO
DEFEND STHESMS AND BE TREATED
MORE RESPECTFULLY, MR. PAUL HAS
WRITTEN.
CONGRESSMAN OPPOSES ECONOMIC
SANCTIONS ON IRAN, HE OPPOSES
PREEMPTIVE STRIKES ON IRAN.
INDEED MR. PAUL HAS INDICATED HE
DOES NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH
IRAN ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
BECAUSE HE DOESN'T THINK THE
MULLAHS IN TEHRAN WOULD ACTUALLY
USE SUCH WEAPONS AGAINST THEIR
ENEMIES.
WHAT'S MORE, HE HAS STATED HE
WILL NOT COME TO ISRAEL'S
IF IRAN FIRED NUCLEAR
WEAPONS AT THE JEWISH STATE.
THIS ARTICLE BY JOE ROSENBERG IS
AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE.
AND HE USED TO BE TAKEN
SERIOUSLY.
KNOWING HERMAN CAIN PERSONALLY,
GOVERNOR RICK PERRY PERSONALLY,
MICHELE BACHMANN PERSONALLY,
RICK SANTORUM PERSONALLY, NEWT
GINGRICH PERSONALY, I KNOW
THEY'RE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT IT.
BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE
DEBATES HAVE BEEN STRUCTURED
THIS IS NOT BEEN AN ISSUE THAT'S
BEEN PUSHED.
AND I KNOW ALL OF THOSE
INDIVIDUALS WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW
THEIR HEARTS AND KNOW THEY DO
NOT WANT IRAN TO HAVE NUCLEAR
WEAPONS AND WILL DO WHAT'S
NECESSARY TO PREVENT IT.
TROUBLE IS, NONE OF THOSE
INDIVIDUALS WILL BECOME
PRESIDENT OR EVEN HAVE THE
CHANCE TO BECOME PRESIDENT FOR
18 MONTHS.
IT'S TIME THAT THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE CONVINCED THE AMERICAN
PRESIDENT WHO HELPED CREATE THE
SITUATION WHERE AL QAEDA FLAGS,
OUR SWORN ENEMIES WHO WANT TO
DESTROY IT, WE HELPED THEM
CREATE THE SITUATION WHERE THEY
COULD FLY THEIR FLAGS OVER THE
LIBYAN COURTHOUSE.
THAT'S MORE THAN A LIBYAN
COURTHOUSE, IT WAS THE -- IT WAS
THE BRIEF CAPITOL, THE
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT
THIS PRESIDENT CHOSE TO HELP.
A DANGEROUS TIME.
NOW, I FILED HOUSE RESOLUTION
271 THAT'S GOT A SLOUGH OF
CO-SPONSORS, THEY'RE ALL
REPUBLICAN, BUT I WOULD HOPE
THAT SOME OF MY FRIENDS ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE WOULD
JOIN IN WITH US ON THIS.
AND, MADAM SPEAKER, I WOULD HOPE
THAT PEOPLE WOULD ENCOURAGE
THEIR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SIGN
ON IF THEY SUPPORT WHAT'S HERE.
BASICALLY MOST OF THIS
RESOLUTION, IT'S NOT TERRIBLY
CAN LONG, JUST SIX PAGES, MOST
OF THAT ARE WHEREAS IS STATING
FACTS.
THIS RESOLUTION EXPRESS SUPPORT
FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT
TO DEFEND ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY,
TO PROTECT THE LIVES AND SAFETY
OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE AND TO USE
ALL MEANS NECESSARY TO CONFRONT
AND ELIMINATE NUCLEAR THREATS
POSED BY THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
IRAN, INCLUDING THE USE OF
MILITARY FORCE, IF NO OTHER
PEACEFUL SOLUTION CAN BE FOUND
WITHIN REASONABLE TIME TO
PROTECT AGAINST SUCH AN
IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE STATE OF
ISRAEL.
WHEREAS ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
EXISTS CONFIRMING ISRAEL'S
EXISTENCE AS A NATION OVER 3,000
YEARS AGO IN THE AREA IN WHICH
IT CURRENTLY EXISTS, DESPITE
ASSERTIONS OF ITS OPPONENTS.
WHEREAS THE DAWN OF MODERN
ZIONISM, THE LIBERATION OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE SOME 150 YEARS
AGO, THE JEWISH PEOPLE
DETERMINED TO RETURN TO THEIR
HOMELAND AND THE LAND OF ISRAEL
FROM THE LANDS OF THEIR
DISPERSION.
WHEREAS IN 1922 THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS MANDATED THAT THE JEWISH
PEOPLE WERE THE LEGAL SOVEREIGNS
OVER THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND THAT
LEGAL MANDATE HAS NEVER BEEN
SUPERSEDED.
WHEREAS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE
NAZI-LED HOLOCAUST FROM 1933 TO
1945 IN WHICH THE GERMANS AND
THEIR COLLABORATORS MURDERED SIX
MILLION JEWISH PEOPLE IN A
PREMEDITATED ACT OF GENOCIDE,
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
RECOGNIZED THAT THE JEWISH
STATE, BUILT BY JEWISH PIONEERS,
MUST GAIN ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM
GREAT BRITAIN.
WHEREAS THE UNITED STATES WAS
THE FIRST NATION TO RECOGNIZE
ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE IN 1948
AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS
SINCE PROVEN HERSELF TO BE A
FAITHFUL ALLY OF THE UNITED
STATES AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
WHEREAS THE UNITED STATES AND
ISRAEL HAVE A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP
BASED ON SHARED VALUES AND
TOGETHER SHARE THE COMMON GOAL
OF PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.
WHEREAS ON OCTOBER 20, 2009,
PRESIDENT OBAMA RIGHTFULLY NOTED
THAT THE UNITED STATES-ISRAEL
RELATIONSHIP IS A, QUOTE, BONDS,
THAT IS MUCH MORE THAN A
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE, UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF
THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL AND
ALLIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST FACE A
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER FROM
THE GOVERN OF THE ISLAMIC
REPUBLIC OF IRAN SEEKING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS IN THE BALLISTIC MISSILE
CAPABILITY TO DELIVER THEM.
WHEREAS ISRAEL WOULD FACE AN
EXIST STENTION THREAT FROM
NUCLEAR WEAPONS-ARMED IRAN.
WHEREAS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BEEN
FIRM AND CLEAR IN DECLARING
UNITED STATES OPPOSITION TO A
NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN STATING
NOVEMBER 7 OF 2008, QUOTE, LET
ME STATE, REPEAT WHAT I STATED
DURING THE COURSE OF THE
IRAN'S DEVELOPMENT A
NUCLEAR WEAPON, I BELIEVE, IS
UNACCEPTABLE, UNQUOFMENTE --
UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS ON OCTOBER 26, 2005, AS
A CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN CALLED
WORLD WITHOUT ZIONISM, IRANIAN
PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
STATED, QUOTE, GOD WILLING WITH
THE FORCE OF GOD BEHIND IT WE
SHALL SOON EXPERIENCE A WORLD
WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND
ZIONISM, UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
REPORTED THAT DURING HIS OCTOBER
26, 2005, SPEECH PRESIDENT
AHMADINEJAD CALLED FOR, QUOTE,
THIS OCCUPYING REGIME, ISRAEL,
TO BE WIPED OFF THE MAP,
UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS ON APRIL 14, 2006,
IRANIAN PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD
SAID, QUOTE, LIKE IT OR NOT
THESE ZIONIST REGIME ISRAEL IS
HEADING TOWARD ANNIHILATION,
UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS ON JUNE 2, 2008, IRANIAN
PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD SAID,
I MUST ANNOUNCE THAT THE
ZIONIST REGIME ISRAEL WITH A
60-YEAR RECORD OF GENOCIDE,
PLUNDER, INVASION AND BETRAYAL,
IS ABOUT TO DIE AND WILL SOON BE
ERASED FROM THE GEOGRAPHICAL
SCENE, UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS ON JUNE 2, 2008, IRANIAN
PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD SAID,
QUOTE, TODAY THE TIME FOR THE
FALL OF THE SATANIC POWER OF THE
UNITED STATES HAS COME AND THE
COUNTDOWN TO ANNIHILATION OF THE
EMPEROR OF POWER AND WEALTH HAS
STARTED, UNQUOTE.
WHEREAS ON MAY 20, 2009, IRAN
SUCCESSFULLY TESTED A SURFACE TO
SURFACE LONG RANGE MISSILE WITH
AN RANGE OF 1,2 -- WITH AN
PRESIDENT RANGE OF 1,200 MILES,
WHEREAS IRAN HAS BEEN CAUGHT
BUILDING THREE SECRET NUCLEAR
FACILITIES SINCE 2002, WHEREAS
IRAN CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OF
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, HAS
ORDERED ITS PROXY, HEZBOLLAH, TO
OUT CATASTROPHIC ACTS OF
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM SUCH AS
THE BOMBING OF THE JEWISH AMIA
CENTER IN BUNES ARIZONA,
ARGENTINA, IN 1994, AND COULD
GIVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON TO A
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE
WHEREAS IRAN HAS REFUSED TO
PROVIDE THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC
ENERGY AGENCY WITH FULL
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESS TO ITS
NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
WHEREAS UNITED NATIONS SECURITY
COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1803 STATES
THAT ACCORDING TO THE
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY
AGENCY, QUOTE, IRAN HAS NOT
ESTABLISHED FULL AND SUSTAINED
SUSPENSION OF ALL
ENRICHMENT-RELATED AND
REPROCESSING ACTIVITIES AND
HEAVY-RELATED WATER PROJECT,
1737 OF 2006, 1747 OF 2007, NOR
RESUMED ITS COOPERATION WITH THE
IAEA UNDER THE ADDITIONAL
PROTOCOL, NOR TAKEN THE OTHER
BOARD
OF GOVERNORS, NOR COMPLIED WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF SECURITY
COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1696, 1737
AND 1747.
WHEREAS IN JULY OF 2009'S G-8
SUMMIT IN ITALY, IRAN WAS GIVEN
A SEPTEMBER, 2009, DEADLINE TO
START NEGOTIATIONS OVER ITS
NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND IRAN OFFERED
A FIVE-PAGE DOCUMENT LAMENTING
THE, QUOTE, UNGODLY WAYS OF
THINKING PREVAILING IN GLOBAL
RELATIONS, AND INCLUDING VARIOUS
SUBJECTS BUT LEFT OUT ANY
MENTION OF IRAN'S OWN NUCLEAR
PROGRAM WHICH WAS THE TRUE ISSUE
IN QUESTION.
WHEREAS THE UNITED STATES HAS
FULLY COMMITTED -- IS FULLY
COMMITTED TO FINDING A PEACEFUL
RESOLUTION TO IRANIAN NUCLEAR
THREAT AND HAS MADE BALANCED
EFFORTS SEEKING SUCH A
RESOLUTION AND TO DETERMINE IF
SUCH A RESOLUTION IS EVEN
POSSIBLE, WHEREAS THE UNITED
STATES DOES NOT WANT OR SEEK WAR
WITH IRAN, BUT IT WILL CONTINUE
ALL OPTIONS OPEN TO
PREVENT IRAN FROM OBTAINING
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WHEREAS
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU
SAID IN JANUARY, 2011, THAT A
CHANGE OF COURSE IN IRAN WILL
NOT BE POSSIBLE, QUOTE, WITHOUT
A CREDIBLE MILITARY OPTION THAT
IS PUT BEFORE THEM BY THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LED BY
THE UNITED STATES, UNQUOTE.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
THAT THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, NUMBER ONE,
CONDEMNS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN FOR ITS
THREATS OF ANNIHILATING THE
UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF
ISRAEL.
OR ITS CONTINUED SUPPORT OF
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND FOR
ITS INCITEMENT OF GENOCIDE OF
THE ISRAELI PEOPLE.
SUPPORTS USING -- NUMBER TWO,
SUPPORTS USING ALL MEANS
PERSUADING THE GOVERNMENT OF
IRAN TO STOP BUILDING AND
ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
NUMBER THREE, REAFFIRMS THE
UNITED STATES BONDS WITH ISRAEL
AND PLEDGES TO CONTINUE WORK
WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO
ENSURE THAT THEIR SOVEREIGN
NATION CONTINUES TO RECEIVE
CRITICAL ECONOMIC AND MILITARY
ASSISTANCE INCLUDING MISSILE
DEFENSE CAPABILITIES, NEEDED TO
ADDRESS THE THREAT OF IRAN AND,
NUMBER FOUR, EXPRESSES SUPPORT
FOR ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO USE ALL
MEANS NECESSARY TO CONFRONT AND
ELIMINATE NUCLEAR THREATS POSED
BY IRAN, DEFEND ISRAELI
SOVEREIGNTY AND PROTECT THE
LIVES AND SAFETY OF THE ISRAELI
PEOPLE INCLUDING THE USE OF
MILITARY FORCE IF NO OTHER
PEACEFUL SOLUTION COULD BE FOUND
WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME.
THAT'S HOUSE RESOLUTION 271 AND
I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT MORE
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL JOIN US
IN SUPPORTING THAT POSITION
BECAUSE TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
IT IS ALSO MY HOPE AND PRAYER
THAT THE RUMORS THAT HAVE GONE
AROUND ABOUT WHAT THIS
ADMINISTRATION HAS TOLD ISRAEL
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS DO NOT HAVE
SUPPORT IN FACT.
THAT'S MY HOPE AND PRAYER.
BECAUSE IF THIS ADMINISTRATION
WERE TO BE TELLING ISRAEL BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS THAT IF THEY MOVE
TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST A
NUCLEAR ATTACK BY IRAN WITHOUT
THE UNITED STATES' PERMISSION,
WHICH WOULD NOT BE GIVEN, THEN
ISRAEL, SINCE THEY DO NOT HAVE
ALL OF OUR STEALTH CAPABILITY,
DO NOT HAVE THE MOST
SOPHISTICATED BOMBS WE HAVE,
WILL LIKELY LOSE MANY PLANES AND
WILL BE IN NEED OF REPLACEMENT
PLANES AND PARTS.
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT THE RUMOR
THAT THEY'RE TELLING THEM WE
WILL NOT SUPPORT THEM WITH
REPLACEMENT PLANES, REPLACEMENT
PARTS IF THEY DEFEND THEMSELVES
IS NOT TRUE.
BUT THIS PRESIDENT, THOUGH HE'S
BEEN SO VOCAL ABOUT WHY WE
TO GO SUPPORT LIBYA, WHY
IT WAS IN OUR AMERICAN VALUES'
INTEREST, HAS NOT TALKED A LOT
ABOUT WHAT HE'S TELLING ISRAEL
BEHIND THE SCENES.
ISRAEL IS IN GRAVE DANGER.
WE HAVE BEEN A FRIEND BECAUSE WE
BELIEVE IN THE SAME VALUE OF
HUMAN LIFE, THE SAME VALUE OF
FREEDOM, LIBERTY.
WE OWE IT TO THEM.
OUR FRIENDS, OUR ALLIES.
IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE
NERVE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST A
COUNTRY THAT HAS SWORN TO BE AT
WAR WITH US AND TO DESTROY US
AND TAKE US OUT AT ALL COSTS,
AT LEAST NOT
STAND IN THE WAY OF A FRIEND WHO
WANTS TO DO SO.
TO COVER HERE.
THERE'S AN ARTICLE FROM
"NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE" BY
ANDREW MCCARTHY, ANOTHER
BRILLIANT MAN AND PROUD TO SAY
DEAR FRIEND, THE HEADLINE, DID
OBAMA POINT -- APPOINTEE ACCESS
CONFIDENTIAL DATABASE IN EFFORT
TO SMEAR PERRY AS ISLAMPHOBE?
TERRORISM RESEARCHER PATRICK
POOL REPORTS THAT AN APPOINTEE
OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HOMELAND
SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL IS IN
HOT WATER WITH THE TEXAS
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
ISSUES WHETHER HE USED HIS
PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO STATE A LAW
ENFORCEMENT -- OR ACCESS A STATE
LAW ENFORCEMENT DATABASE TO
ACQUIRE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS AND
THEN TRIED TO SHOP THEM TO THE
MEDIA URGING THEY SHOWED RAMPANT
PERRY.
POOL SAYS NO STORY WAS PUB
ACCOMPLISHED -- PUBLISHED
BECAUSE ACCORDING TO ONE PRESS
SOURCE THERE WAS, QUOTE, NOTHING
RESEMBLING ISLAMAPHOBIA,
UNQUOTE, IN THE LEAKED REPORTS.
THE SOURCE SAID, I THINK HE WAS
HOPING WE WOULD BITE AND NOT
GIVE IT TOO MUCH OF A LOOK IN
LIGHT OF OTHER MEDIA OUTFITS
JUMPING ON THE ISLAMAPHOBIA
BANDWAGON.
IT WAS THE SUBJECT OF MY COLUMN
LAST WEEK, THERE ARE PLENTY OF
ISLAMISTS AND LEFTISTS CLIMBING
ABOARD.
HE WAS ALSO ON PRESIDENT
OBAMA'S D-8 DEPARTMENT WORKING
GROUP ON COUNTERING VIOLENT
EXTREMISM.
THAT'S THE BRAIN TRUST THAT
CAME UP WITH THE NEW OBAMA
TERRORISM STRATEGY THAT
INVOLVES HAVING LAW ENFORCEMENT
PARE BACK THEIR INTELLIGENCE
GATHERING AND TAKE THEIR
MARCHING ORDERS FROM COMMUNITY
PARTNERS.
NEW STRATEGY FACT
FOBEA.
-- FACTPHOBIA.
HE HAD AN APPEARANCE AT A
CONFERENCE FEATURING ITOE LA
KHOMEINI'S CHRISCISM FOR -- AND
AN AGGRESSIVE EMAIL EXCHANGE
WHERE DREIER, AT THE "DALLAS
MORNING NEWS" COUNTERED HIS
PRAISE, IN WHICH HE CALLED
DREIER A KLANSMAN WITHOUT A
HOOD AND WARNED HIM, TREAT
PEOPLE AS INFERIORS AND YOU CAN
EXPECT SOMEONE TO PUT A BANANA
IN YOUR EXHAUST PIPE OR
SOMETHING, UNQUOTE.
WHO BETTER COULD PRESIDENT OPAW
MA CHOOSE TO FORMULATE THE
STRATEGY.
ONCE YOU READ THE STRATEGY,
YOU'LL AGREE HE MADE THE
WE HAVE ANOTHER ARTICLE FROM
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE,
HEADLINE, AGAIN FROM ANDREW
MCCARTHY, NAPOLITANO ON AL
BIARI.
I KNOW NOTHING, I KNOW NOTHING.
HE SAID THAT SECRETARY
NAPOLITANO PROFESSES NOT TO
KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE MATTER
OR ABOUT HOW A GUY WHO APPEARS
AT A CONFERENCE HONORING ITOE
LA KHOMEINI WHO PRAISES MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD THEORIST AND
CONDEMNS THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT'S SUCCESSFUL PROSS
CUSHION OF THE MUSLIM
BROTHERHOOD'S FINANCING NETWORK
AND THE -- IN THE HOLY LAND
FOUNDATION CASE SOMEHOW WINDS
UP ON THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY
COUNCIL THAT HELPED ADVISE THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S
COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY.
OUT AS
SECRETARY NAPOLITANO TESTIFIED
THAT ACTUALLY SHE, AS SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND SECURITY, GAVE THIS
GENTLEMAN THE SECRET SECURITY
CLEARANCE WHICH ULTIMATELY
ALLOWED HIM TO ACCESS SENSITIVE
DOCUMENTS, AT LEAST TWO OR
THREE OF WHICH HE DOWNLOADED
AND TRIED TO MARKET TO MAJOR
MEDIA SOURCES.
I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE
THAT IN THE PLEADING THAT
KHALID SHEIKH MUHAMMAD FILED,
HE'S A SMART MAN, HE MAY BE
CRAZY BUT HE'S A VERY SMART
MAN, DID HIS OWN INTERPRETATION
IN ENGLISH, SO SOME OF THE
ARTICLES ARE NOT QUITE
APPROPRIATE BUT IT'S -- HE SETS
OUT A LEGAL DOCUMENT AND
JUSTIFIES ALL THE ACTIONS HE
ON 9/11'S
*** OF 3,000 AMERICANS, HE
TAKES VERSES FROM THE KORAN AND
USES THEM TO JUSTIFY HIS
AT ONE POINT IN HIS PLEADING,
WHICH WE HAVE ACCESS TO THROUGH
OUR WEBSITE, THIS WAS
DECLASSIFIED BY THE JUDGE IN
THE 9/11 CASE INVOLVING FIVE
PLANNERS OF 9/11, IT WAS
ORDERED RELEASED ON THE NINTH
DAY OF MARCH, 2009.
AND THERE ARE ALSO TRANSCRIPTS
OF HIS COLLOQUY WITH THE JUDGE
IN WHICH HE CONFESSED TO MANY
OTHER ACTS OF TERRORISM QUITE
VOLUNTARILY, IT WAS OBVIOUS BUT
IN HIS PLEADING, ON BEHALF OF
HIMSELF AND THE FOUR OTHER
DEFENDANTS, WHO WERE READY TO
PLEAD GUILTY, ANNOUNCED THEY
WERE PLEADING GUILTY, BEFORE
THIS ADMINISTRATION AND THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL TO BE, ERIC
HOLDER, ANNOUNCED THEY WERE
GOING TO GIVE THESE GUYS A SHOW
TRIAL IN NEW YORK, SO THEY
WITHDREW THEIR GUILTY PLEAS SO
THEY COULD GET A SHOW TRIAL IN
NEW YORK.
NOW THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN
AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE FOUR
YEARS AFTER THESE PEOPLE AGREED
TO PLEAD GUILTY, WHICH WILL BE
DECEMBER OF NEXT YEAR, THEY
WILL STILL NOT HAVE BEEN TRIED
BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS OF THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
KHALID CHIC MOHAMED SAYS WE
DON'T -- KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMED
SAYS WE DON'T HAVE YOUR WEAPON
BUS WE FIGHT YOU WITH THE ACT
OF GOD.
IF OUR ACT OF FIGHTING YOU
CAUSE FEAR AND TERROR, THEN
MANY THANKS TO GOD BECAUSE IT
IS HIM WHO HAS THROWN FEAR INTO
YOUR HEARTS WHICH RESULTED, HE
SAYS IN, HE MEANT FROM, YOUR
PAGANISM AND YOUR
STATEMENT THAT GOD HAD A SON
AND YOUR TRINITY BELIEFS.
THEN HE GOES ON AND HE SAYS,
GOD STATED IN HIS BOOK, VERSE
151, SOON SHALL WE CAST TERROR
INTO THE HEARTS OF THE
UNBELIEVERS FOR THAT THEY JOIN
COMPANIES WITH AL LA FOR WHICH
HE HAS -- WITH ALLAH FOR WHICH
HE HAS SENT NO AUTHORITY, THEIR
PLACE WILL BE THE FIRE AND EVIL
IS THE HEART AT OF THIS
WRONGDOER.
HE ALSO SAYS, WE ASK TO BE NEAR
GOD, WE FIGHT YOU, DESTROY YOU,
TERRORIZE YOU, YOU WILL BE
GREATLY DEFEATED IN AFGHANISTAN
AND IRAQ AND AMERICA WILL FALL
POLITICALLY, MILITARILY,
YOUR FALL WILL BE JUST THE FALL
-- JUST AS THE FALL OF THE
TOWERS ON THE BLESSED 9/11 DAY.
BUT THIS GENTLEMAN REFERENCES
THAT ONE OF THE REASONS IT'S OK
TO KILL AMERICANS IS BECAUSE
MANY AMERICANS BELIEVE THERE IS
FATHER, SON,
AND HOLY GHOST.
THEY BELIEVE THAT GOD HAD A SON
THAT CHRISTIANS CALL THE
MESSIAH.
MY TIME IS RUNNING OUT, SO LET
ME JUST DIRECT, MADAM SPEAKER,
TO THE TREATY OF PARIS, 1783.
SUCH A HISTORIC DOCUMENT.
THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD AT THAT TIME, 1783,
WAS GREAT BRITAIN.
THEY'D HAD THE MOST POWERFUL
NAVY, THE MOST POWERFUL
MILITARY, AND YET A RAGTAG
BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED SO
FIRMLY IN THE IDEAS OF FREEDOM
AND BEING ABLE TO PRACTICE MOST
OF THEM, IN FACT A THIRD OF THE
SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION
WEREN'T JUST CRIPS, THEY, AS
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., WERE
ORDAINED CHRISTIAN MINISTERS.
AND THEY BELIEVED IN FREEDOM.
AND THAT GOD WAS GIVING US A
CHANCE TO GOVERN OURSELVES.
SO AFTER THIS RAGTAG BUNCH
DEFEATED THE STRONGEST CUPRY IN
THE WORLD, GREAT BRITAIN, AND
THEY SAT TOWN IN 1783, IN
PARIS, AND WE HAD THERE ON OUR
BEHALF JOHN ADAMS, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN AND JOHN JAY, THREE OF
OUR BRIGHTEST MINDS, THEY HAD
TO SET ABOUT FIGURING OUT WHAT
CAN WE PUT ON PAPER TO HAVE
GREAT BRITAIN SIGN THAT WILL BE
SO IMPORTANT THAT THEY WOULD
NOT WANT TO RISK VIOLATING AN
OATH?
WHAT KIND OF OATH COULD WE PUT
TREATY THAT GREAT
VIOLATE?
THIS TEETY WILL WANT THEM TO
RECOGNIZE THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE
IT SERIOUS ENOUGH THAT THEY
WOULD NOT TURN AROUND THE NEXT
MONTH AND SAY, WE HAD NO RIGHT
TO BE INDEPENDENT, DESPITE WHAT
THEY SIGNED.
THERE IS AN ORIGINAL COPY OF
THE TREATY OF PARIS IN THE
STATE DEPARTMENT.
TOURISTS CAN BE -- TOURS CAN BE
TAKEN, I'VE TAKEN TOURS ALL
OVER WASHINGTON, D.C., UNTIL MY
PASTOR AND HIS WIFE WERE IN
TOWN A FEW YEARS BACK, I HAD
NOT SEEP THAT.
I WAS TAKEN ABACK, I'VE GOT A
COPY OF, THIS IS A DUPLICATE,
OF THE TREATY OF PARIS.
TWO PAGES.
WELL, IT'S THE FIRST AND LAST
HERE.
APPARENTLY, IT SAYS THERE'S 10
ARTICLES SO WE'VE GOT THE FIRST
AND LAST PAGES HERE.
SO HOW WOULD YOU START A TREATY
IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WOULD
SCARE THE STRONGEST COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD FROM VIOLATING THEIR
OATH?
THEY FIGURED IT OUT AND PUT IT
ON THE DOCUMENT, THE BIGGEST
LETTERS ANYWHERE IN THE TREATY
ARE THOSE IN THE FIRST TWO
LINES, AND THEY BEGAN, IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST HOLY AND
UNDIVIDED TRINITY.
STARTING THE TREATY OF PARIS
WITH "IN THE NAME OF THE MOST
HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY,"
THEY KNEW WOULD BE STRONG
ENOUGH TO SCARE GREAT BRITAIN
INTO NOT VIOLATING THE OATH
THAT THEY SIGNED ON THAT
DOCUMENT.
THEN, YOU TIE IT IN WITH KHALID
SHEIKH MOHAMED'S PLEADING, THE
VERY FACT THAT THEY WOULD SIGN
SUCH A DOCUMENT RECOGNIZING THE
HOLY TRINITY, ACCORDING TO
KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMED AND HIS
INTERPRETATION OF THE KORAN,
THAT'S JUSTIFICATION FOR
KILLING AND TERRORIZING PEOPLE
THAT BELIEVE IN THE HOLY,
UNDIVIDED TRINITY.
THERE'S A WAR GOING ON AND IN
LIBYA, APPARENTLY, WE FOUGHT
FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DESTROY
US.
THE AL QAEDA FLAG NOW FLIES
PROUDLY OVER THIS FEDERAL
BUILDING IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS
ADMINISTRATION FOR MAKING THAT
HAPPEN.
WITH THAT, MADAM SPEAKER, I
YIELD BACK.
THE
BACK.
THE CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE