Honorable Keith Ellison
United States Representative, Minnesota, Democrat
Representative Ellison, of the Fifth District of Minnesota, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2006. He serves on the House Financial Services Committee. The following is from the July 31, 2013, House floor debate on H.R. 850, the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013. My colleagues come here today proposing this new, intensified legislation on the basis that they would like to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon. So do we. But we have a changed circumstance, a changed circumstance that this legislation does not acknowledge, and that is that the Iranian people…
