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Imminent Threats to our National Security

Floor Speech

Date: July 14, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security

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Mrs. LUMMIS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for sponsoring this Special Order, which allows the women of the Republican Conference to talk about an issue that is affecting all Americans, men and women.

Benjamin Netanyahu is calling this deal a historic mistake. Historic. Think about Israel and history. And when you have its prime minister calling this a historic mistake, we should be paying attention.

Madam Speaker, there is a very real and present danger of nuclear proliferation because of this deal; so it is critical that America not let her military preparedness for deterrence deteriorate. It will have exactly the opposite effect of that which the administration intends.

Consequently, we need all three legs of the nuclear triad--land, air, and water--for a strong defense and deterrence against attack. With a triad of bombers, submarines, and ICBMs, missiles are the most affordable, and they are on alert, protecting America and deterring her enemies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

We should be talking with Poland, with the Czech Republic, and we should make sure that they have an adequate missile defense. We are going to have to start talking to Saudi Arabia.

If Israel and Saudi Arabia are already today talking about the consequences of a deal with Iran, what does that tell you? It tells you just what the gentlewoman from Alabama was telling us a few minutes ago when they visited there, which is that security in Saudi Arabia--homeland security--is an enormous issue.

It is because there are always terrorists coming into Saudi Arabia, trying to get at Mecca and Medina, trying to do something that will cause a conflagration around the world, that will incite religious battles.

When they have one of their most feared adversaries now being in a position after 8 years and having now the money because of the lifting of the sanctions to go ahead with a nuclear program, what do you think they are going to do? What are the Saudis going to do? It is critical that we maintain for world peace and the deterrence of nuclear war our own ability to respond and to deter.

Madam Chairman, I thank you for this Special Order, and I thank you for your diligent work in this regard.

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