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Experience for me and, you know, i just hope im a role model for other young women. At what point did you say im going to run for congress . Ms. Stefanik thats a great question. I decided to run for congress after the 2012 election. I worked on governor romneys campaign. I was head of debate prep for paul ryan. And i was very disappoint in the outcome of the 2012 election but i spent a lot of time thinking about how the party needs to run, new generation candidates, and needs to be able to pass our message to young voters, particularly young women. In new york state, i grew up in my family, Small Business, my parents started as a kid. And its gotten harder to grow as a business in new york than it was over 20 years ago when they started. We need policies to promote entrepreneurialism and innovation and economic growth. But we need to have a new generation of leadership in congress. So after 2012, i started working at my familys business which i grew up around and i started as a complet
That they developed more easily to their allies but they will be able to import from russia and china the technology they need for icbms or surface to air weapons and so forth. Ambassador burns. There is no question the iranians were trying to split the p5 in the last week of the negotiations with this proposal. Point one. There is no way we could have accepted this, so i was trying to dive through the details coming over here, if we can maintain the u. N. Weapons and embargoes for five to eight years, thats good for the United States. Hold on, five to eight years they in ten years they are going to have the capability for undetectable breakout, ten years plus under this agreement. Why would we want to agree to five years lifting and eight years for the russian transference of that capability . Why would the United States sign off on such an agreement ambassador . I am not here of course to represent the administration i am just a private citizen. This is a painful tradeoff and i would
The United States and president obama have said we will use any weapon at our disposal to accomplish that. The route taken doesnt start there. The Bush Administration sought negotiations. That led to sanctions. The Obama Administration pushed stronger sanctions that really made a difference on the iranians. The Obama Administration came back with a negotiated agreement. This is among the most complex agreements any of us can hope to judge. It is filled with painful tradeoffs. There are risks to acting and risks to not acting. I agree that this will be one of the most consequential votes any of us will take. For diplomatic history you may have to go back to the league of nations in 1920 four when Congress Played such a role in whether we go forward or whether we dont go forward. I worked on iran policy for three years. I helped to sanction iran. I believe we have to contain the threat in the middle east, but i also believe president obamas policy is worth your support. Im going to suppo
Deal with. To over simplify just a little bit, the issue is not just Irans Nuclear program, the issue is iran. And we need to be careful that our efforts to resolve this issue doesnt worsen the other dimensions of the problem. Now let me focus on the Nuclear Portfolio per se. If i were here with a butcher paper or something and drawing a pert chart as to how do you get from here to there with there being a Nuclear Weapon on the part of the iranians i would have three critical paths. One path would be delivery vehicles. The iranian Ballistic Missile program. Another path would be weaponization, making a device small enough and rugged enough and confident and reliable enough that you put it in a nose cone. And the third path is material, the things you need to actually have a bomb. We have chosen to bet the farm on blocking one path. We have chosen to bet our future here on blocking the path toward the creation of missile material. The other two paths ballistic material, Delivery Systems