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Name: Barak Mofaz

Media/Outlet: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer 

Reason: Iranian-Chinese Cooperation Deal

• Wolf, I am deeply concerned and frankly worried over this announced deal of cooperation between China & Iran, a 25-year cooperation program with $600 billion over the next 25 years, should kick this administration and the rest of NATO up the ass and get them to act now.
• The president must demand that all NATO members begin spending 2% of their Gross Domestic Product to defence spending, only us, the UK, Poland, Greece, and the Baltic states are doing so.
• According to a Bloomberg report, we are spending 42% on operations and maintenance of aging military systems, we need new investment in weapons procurement and defence research and development.
• Many people condemned TPP, meanwhile, they grumble about China's dominance. The TPP was a trade treaty to counter China's influence in Asia. We must renew our engagement not just in Asia but around the globe, offering debt relief, increasing micro-development loans, and increasing foreign aid. 
• We must improve our soft power capabilities by revamping the State Department and providing it with the needed tools, which means more funding to solve how chronically understaffed the Foreign Service is now.
• We must do this or we will continue to see news of China offering other deals to other nations or the recent announcement of China's trade security force. I prefer America on top, not goddamn second to China.

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Mr.President,

I move for cloture.

I yield.

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CS

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Jack

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Madam President,

I accept the minority leader's amendment as friendly.

I would be willing to agree with the offer from the gentleman from Missouri. We'll see if those opposing this would agree. 

6 hours ago, SWMissourian said:

Would the Senators be open to a reduced amount of automatic replenishment, which would sunset after a few years? This way, Israel gets its normal level of funding and protection for the Iron Dome, maybe even a little more, and we end up with a more responsible solution for the time being. 

I yield.

25 minutes ago, General Goose said:

I guess the first thing is this: do we want to try doing things like CHIPS and infrastructure in a bipartisan way? 

For this, I'd be devil's advocate here, do we want to be stuck in endless attempts at bipartisanship when we know they will want endless cuts to essential programs and get nothing, or we push it through recon, get accused of acting authoritarian but getting most of our policy achievements?

As for your first question, we created infrastructure banks in VUSA for this purpose. Could we all agree to something like that to avoid accusations of pork?

Well, for Georgia,

$8.9 billion for roads

$225 million for bridges

$200 million to expand broadband service across the state

$1.4 billion over five years for public transportation in Georgia

$1.3 billion fund recommended airport projects across Georgia

$8 million to help five existing facilities into container yards for the Port of Savannah

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$12.5 billion to improve drinking water demands

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$3 billion in funding for the Atlanta transit agency's expansion program

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Madam President,

To answer the gentleman from Utah's question, the United States is woefully unprepared regarding anti-ship missile technology. It is so inadequate that China has significantly improved its anti-ship missile capabilities while we have lagged. Many in this chamber may be wondering how this would help Israel. Why would this need to be included in a bill about Iron Dome? Madam President, Chinese-made anti-ship missiles have been used against Israeli forces.

2006 during the Lebanon War, the INS Hanit, an Israeli corvette, was struck by a C-701 or a YJ-7 fired by Hezbollah. The YJ-7 is Chinese-made, used by Iran and exported to Hezbollah. The $8 billion is recommended by DARPA to continue our strategic edge against our enemies and to support our allies. 

I yield.

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