House Proceeding on Oct 13th, 2009 :: 1:45:40 to 1:48:00
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Dennis J. Kucinich: in iran's energy sector. there are those who have said that there was not that much accomplished from that particular sanction act. and there are those who are saying now if we move forward with sanctions that it will actually be underming the business interests of the people on the security council the united states needs to work with to try to bring iran into

1:45:40 to 1:48:00( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: the international community in a way that promotes international community and that would be china and russia. the fact is that u.s. policy towards iran for the last three decades has kansas citied of pressure in the form of -- has

1:46:20 to 1:46:42( Edit History Discussion )

Dennis J. Kucinich: consistently in the form of sanctions. it has no meaningful change in the behavior of the iranian government. on oober 1 there was a change. for the first time in recent past high level delegations from iran and the u.s. and other industrialized nations sat down with diplomatic talks. there was significant progress. among the steps forward was an agreement by iran to allow

1:46:43 to 1:47:03( Edit History Discussion )

Dennis J. Kucinich: access by the international atomic energy agency to the recently revealed uranium talks. i think we should be doing everything we can to ensure that diplomacy and that president obama's efforts here succeed.

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Dennis J. Kucinich: i think when we talk about sanctions -- sanctions before the talks. sanctions before any hope for agreements. i don't think the sanctions are going to help with the talks. i don't think sanctions are going to assist us in our efforts to try to bring iran into a new position in the

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Dennis J. Kucinich: world community. i reluctantly oppose this bill, and i'm -- and i'm hopeful that our nuclear posture review will come to an understanding that the united states cannot be in a position o win rembers and losers. ulti to -- nuclear winners and losers.

1:47:46 to 1:48:00( Edit History Discussion )

Dennis J. Kucinich: ultimately we are going to have to get involved in the revolution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> pursuant to clause 7 of rule 22, i present a privileged