Most important, i want to recognize my wife, jana, and our children, liza, charlie, and sam. I also want to thank Speaker Boehner for almost five years he led this house, for nearly 25 years he served it. Not many people can match his accomplishments. The offices he held, the laws he passed, but what really sets john apart is hes a man of character, a true class act. He is without a question the gentleman from ohio. So please join me in saying one last time, thank you Speaker Boehner. Now i know how he felt. Its not until you hold this gavel, stand in this spot, look out and see all 435 members of this house as if all americas sitting right in front of you. Its not till then that you feel it. The weight of responsibility. The grambity of the moment. You graphity of the moment. As i stand here i cant help but think of something harry truman once said. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. When
We are not making any assumptions about irans future policies because we base our process approach on observable facts. What we we see is that iran continues to engage in play and the secretary and division in the region and it continues to detain several american citizens, and our estimation without justification, and to ransom policies are one reason why we are working so closely and supportively with our partners in the region, including the gulf states and israel. In fact, we have established an unprecedented level of cooperation with israel on military issues, we are correlating in forcing sanctions and in trying to stop the Tears Organization such as has months and has below from getting financing and weapons that they seek. We also support israels right to defend itself and its citizens, we do that in many ways. We also support all of the gcc countries in the work we did in camp david and we will continue to do, and i even reaffirmed when i was out in the region a couple of days